<?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[Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come up here to get away from the sun, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come up here to get away from the sun,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26625]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64145]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, white innocence, That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide  Thine awful and serenest countenance  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20965]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, white innocence, That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide  Thine awful and serenest countenance   From those who know thee not!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If this be treason, make the most of it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66339]]></link><description><![CDATA[If this be treason, make the most of it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. [Lat., Fundamenta ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. [Lat., Fundamenta justitiae sunt, ut ne cui noceatur, deinde ut communi utilitati serviatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before;  The winds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before;  The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,   And the clouds perish'd; darkness had no need    Of aid from them--she was the Universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11520]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the world will be gulled, let it be gulled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,  That walks at dead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly,  That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand   O'er some new-open'd grave; and, (strange to tell!)    Evanishes at crowing of the cock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms  Of France ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up Issue to me, that the contending kingdoms  Of France and England, whose very shores look pale   With envy of each other's happiness,    May cease their hatred, and this dear conjunction     Plant neighborhood and Christian-like accord      In their sweet bosoms, that never war advance       His bleeding sword 'twixt England and fair France.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see much risk of a blow out in financial credit spreads any time soon. The balance of risk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38804]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see much risk of a blow out in financial credit spreads any time soon. The balance of risk favors some widening but I expect only slight moderation in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once I got there, I noticed that smoke was everywhere, and we noticed that someone had tried to kick one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once I got there, I noticed that smoke was everywhere, and we noticed that someone had tried to kick one of the side doors in to get in the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us. There lies the Land of Song; there lies the poet's native land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. -As You Like It. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It?s one of the best feelings in football, ... It?s great when you hear the fans and you know you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28385]]></link><description><![CDATA[It?s one of the best feelings in football, ... It?s great when you hear the fans and you know you just made a big play. It?s an unbelievable feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24655]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is a period of missed opportunities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is a period of missed opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13715]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else . . . was to be indifferent to that difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I strike the stars with by sublime head. [Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I strike the stars with by sublime head. [Lat., Sublimi feriam sidera vertice.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew we had to keep fighting because we knew they are a tough team and would keep fighting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30534]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew we had to keep fighting because we knew they are a tough team and would keep fighting to come back hard. We had to play the whole game out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50762]]></link><description><![CDATA[That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36280]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't ever want to go back to the southeast. We're going to come to California, I don't care how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't ever want to go back to the southeast. We're going to come to California, I don't care how expensive it is, and live here for the rest of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13795]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conclusion is simply the place where someone got tired of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17895]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defense stepped up, which is what we expect around here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defense stepped up, which is what we expect around here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  Now since our eternal state is as certainly ours, as our present state; since we are as certainly to live for ever, as we now live at all; it is plain, that we cannot judge of the value of any particular time, as to us, but by comparing it to that eternal duration, for which we are created.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61111]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you sweat in peacetime, the less you bleed during war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men say, "How are we to act, what are we to teach our children, now that we are no longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men say, "How are we to act, what are we to teach our children, now that we are no longer Christians?" You see, gentlemen, how I would answer that question. You are deceived in thinking that the morality of your father was based on Christianity. On the contrary, Christianity presupposed it. That morality stands exactly where it did; its basis has not been withdrawn, for, in a sense, it never had a basis. The ultimate ethical injunctions have always been premises, never conclusions. Kant was perfectly right on that point at least, the imperative is categorical. Unless the ethical is assumed from the outset, no argument will bring you to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The importance of this big defeat, dramatic defeat is not only that they have lost areas, but they have lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The importance of this big defeat, dramatic defeat is not only that they have lost areas, but they have lost their main fighting force,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind, he hears Time's iron gates close faintly, He is now far from them;  For he has reached the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind, he hears Time's iron gates close faintly, He is now far from them;  For he has reached the city of the saintly,   The New Jerusalem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad  Ushering the mutton; with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad  Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen,   If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,    Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney     Is not to be despaired of for our money;      And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks,       The sky not falling, think we may have larks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62966]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The government is us; we are the government, you and I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18038]]></link><description><![CDATA[The government is us; we are the government, you and I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an example on Sunday; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9400]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a fulltime mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure Love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a fulltime mother is one of the highest salaried jobs since the payment is pure Love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When some of these big companies realize how much money there is to make, those ports will start being able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41211]]></link><description><![CDATA[When some of these big companies realize how much money there is to make, those ports will start being able to take shipments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11360]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here you would know, and enjoy, what prosperity will way of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61242</guid></item></channel></rss>