<?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[Sceptre and crown must tumble down And in the dust be equal made  With the poor crooked scythe and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sceptre and crown must tumble down And in the dust be equal made  With the poor crooked scythe and spade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   I desire now to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   I desire now to make no more pleas with Christ; verily, he hath not put me to a loss by what I suffer; he oweth me nothing; for in my bonds, how sweet and comfortable have the thoughts of him been to me, wherein I find a sufficient recompense of reward!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39794]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring  In the spring,   And wait upon her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring  In the spring,   And wait upon her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are encouraging locals to create mini- floats using red wagons or big wheel tricycles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36659]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are encouraging locals to create mini- floats using red wagons or big wheel tricycles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45461]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is for you that paradise is opened, the tree of life is planted, the age to come is prepared, plenty is provided, a city is built, rest is appointed, goodness is established and wisdom perfected beforehand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the revenues were disappointing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the revenues were disappointing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54895]]></link><description><![CDATA[That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either he is naive, or he thinks people are stupid! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either he is naive, or he thinks people are stupid!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11197]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52699]]></link><description><![CDATA[A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been collecting portrait miniatures for some time. Although we had a few handfuls of examples before 1980, we began ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39329]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been collecting portrait miniatures for some time. Although we had a few handfuls of examples before 1980, we began collecting in a more serious fashion about then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who influences the thoughts of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20846]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who influences the thoughts of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be so humble--you are not that great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be so humble--you are not that great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43632]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred,  When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,   Since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59973]]></link><description><![CDATA[O nation miserable, With an untitled tyrant bloody-sceptred,  When shalt thou see thy wholesome days again,   Since that the truest issue of thy throne    By his own interdiction stands accursed     And does blaspheme his breed?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I concede! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22243]]></link><description><![CDATA[I concede!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64919]]></link><description><![CDATA[When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour  The bad affright, afflict the best! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort'ring hour  The bad affright, afflict the best!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[until the accused are in custody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41097]]></link><description><![CDATA[until the accused are in custody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back  How he esteems your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that hails you Tom or Jack, And proves by thumps upon your back  How he esteems your merit,   Is such a friend, that one had need    Be very much his friend indeed     To pardon or to bear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit  Is feather'd oftentimes with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit  Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With eyes that look'd into the very soul-- . . . .  Bright--and as black and burning as coal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14829]]></link><description><![CDATA[With eyes that look'd into the very soul-- . . . .  Bright--and as black and burning as coal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1166]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47523]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25884]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631  I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and His Angels thither; and when they are there, I neglect God and His Angels for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1796]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The palpable obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The palpable obscure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then indecision brings its own delays,And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days.Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute;What you can do, or dream you can, begin it;Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45541]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most ancient Acts of Parliament, for we lived in our ancestors 1,000 years ago, and those ancestors are still living in us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such an exploit have I in hand, Ligarius, Had you a healthful ear to hear of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade  And keeps that palace of the soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade  And keeps that palace of the soul serene.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're trying to tell our family: Shut up or this is going to happen again. The McCartney family opened a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37875]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're trying to tell our family: Shut up or this is going to happen again. The McCartney family opened a lot of eyes in Belfast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37928]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a new coach, so we're still working on a lot of things. For our first race together, it turned out OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, and Place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, and Place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who in this world of ours their eyes In March first open shall be wise;  In days of peril ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who in this world of ours their eyes In March first open shall be wise;  In days of peril firm and brave,   And wear a Bloodstone to their grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.] [Lat., Ea molestissime ferre homines ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.] [Lat., Ea molestissime ferre homines debent quae ipsorum culpa ferenda sunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2192]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got unsung heroes in that school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40562]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got unsung heroes in that school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[main line of investigation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29315]]></link><description><![CDATA[main line of investigation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They live in their cars. They're setting up tents on the beach again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37610]]></link><description><![CDATA[They live in their cars. They're setting up tents on the beach again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37610</guid></item></channel></rss>