<?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[Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much agreement kills the chat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much agreement kills the chat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1548]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Cat and the CockA cat caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonable excuse for eating him. He accused him of being a nuisance to men by crowing in the nighttime and not permitting them to sleep. The Cock defended himself by saying that he did this for the benefit of men, that they might rise in time for their labors. The Cat replied, Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain supperless; and he made a meal of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow the Romany Patteran Sheer to the Austral light,  Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow the Romany Patteran Sheer to the Austral light,  Where the bosom of God is the wild west wind,   Sweeping the sea floors white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18397]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad luck to be superstitious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27759]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad luck to be superstitious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26381]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want success, then don't rely on other people to do what YOU can do!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46612]]></link><description><![CDATA[However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I’m content with what I can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I’m content with what I can do and if I’m completely satisfied with my pace, distance and form as a runner. It’s only when I face frustration and use it to fuel my dedication that I feel myself moving forwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a hospital founded on purpose to receive all sick and maimed persons that, when they can live no longer to the lusts of the flesh and the sinful pleasures of this world, can but put up a cold and formal petition to be admitted there. No, no, as sure as God is true, they shall never see the Kingdom of God who, instead of seeking it in the first place, make it their last refuge and retreat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thread breakes, where it is weakest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49921]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thread breakes, where it is weakest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of evils one should choose the least. [Lat., Ex malis eligere minima oportere.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25946]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen, A bloody tyrant and a homicide;  One raised in blood and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59977]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what is he they follow? Truly, gentlemen, A bloody tyrant and a homicide;  One raised in blood and one in blood established;   One that made means to come by what he hath,    And slaughtered those that were the means to help him;     A base foul stone, made precious by the foil      Of England's chair, where he is falsely set;       One that hath ever been God's enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a cop-out to say 'it was one of those things' because the players are better than that. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a cop-out to say 'it was one of those things' because the players are better than that. They are not lacking ability but today they lacked application.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time: when out of place they are offensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Witty remarks are all very well when spoken at a proper time: when out of place they are offensive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy Will for Deed I do accept. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy Will for Deed I do accept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are used to a clergy take very lightly those who do not have a formal divinity degree: like Paul and Peter and James and John.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who wer as lyke as one pease is to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is sweet in the beginning but bitter in the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is sweet in the beginning but bitter in the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6924]]></link><description><![CDATA[He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vice is its own reward ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vice is its own reward]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have set yourself a task finish it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50811]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have set yourself a task finish it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45383]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends fly away when the cask has been drained to the dregs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hollywood is more forgiving than the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hollywood is more forgiving than the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the hardest things to forecast. So, get used to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32210]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the hardest things to forecast. So, get used to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't see that in Canada, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28657]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't see that in Canada,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course--consist of pilferings from other people's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10210]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course--consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29976]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60868]]></link><description><![CDATA[The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilege of the underprivileged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13816]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48608]]></link><description><![CDATA[It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48608</guid></item></channel></rss>