<?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[Don't imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call "humble" nowadays: he won't be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who's always telling you that, of course, he's nobody. Probably all you'll think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him. If you do dislike him, it will be because you feel a bit envious of anyone who seems to enjoy life so easily. He won't be thinking about himself at all. There I must stop. If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you're not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil requires the sanction of the victim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil requires the sanction of the victim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57047]]></link><description><![CDATA[For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate...before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts...but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strangers open up to you just as much as your friends, sometimes even more for whatever reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strangers open up to you just as much as your friends, sometimes even more for whatever reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49541]]></link><description><![CDATA[In great pedigrees there are Governours and Chandlers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean,  Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43077]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean,  Whilst she, in the vault of heaven,   Moves with silent peaceful motion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Andy didn't have his best stuff. Certainly the Pirates hitters battled with every single pitch. Whether it was to foul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Andy didn't have his best stuff. Certainly the Pirates hitters battled with every single pitch. Whether it was to foul it off or take a ball, nothing came easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56002]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus I clothe my naked villany With old odd ends stolen out of holy writ, And seem a saint when most I play the devil. -King Richard III. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt everything was under my control. It's an unforgettable match and an unforgettable day. This has been a spectacular ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41646]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt everything was under my control. It's an unforgettable match and an unforgettable day. This has been a spectacular year for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66610]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;  But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,   And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood,    Till fell the first from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men,     And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it just shows the strength and popularity of the Derby at this point. A few weeks ago our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it just shows the strength and popularity of the Derby at this point. A few weeks ago our list of horses we thought were possible or probable seemed to be shrinking a bit. But when we got the last round of major preps, the list started growing again -- even though two horses (Brother Derek and Lawyer Ron) you'd regard as the favorites scored emphatic victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love!  Hearts that the world in vain had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love!  Hearts that the world in vain had tried,   And sorrow but more closely tied;    That stood the storm when waves were rough,     Yet in a sunny hour fall off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the lastman to die in a war termed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not want to be the one to tell parents of the lastman to die in a war termed a mistake that he was dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45018]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's great to be here to see Danny, but it's going to be weird watching from the stands, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37265]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's great to be here to see Danny, but it's going to be weird watching from the stands,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60411]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53831]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it may please you leave these sad designs To him that hath most cause to be a mourner,  And presently repair to Crosby House;   Where--after I have solemnly interred    At Chertsey monast'ry with noble king--     And wet his grave with my repentant tears--      I will with all expedient duty see you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossiping doesn't belong in the office. Most of us don't want to hear somebody else's personal drama. If there's good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossiping doesn't belong in the office. Most of us don't want to hear somebody else's personal drama. If there's good news ... graduation, a new house ... but the negative stuff doesn't have a place in the office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you review them from someone else's perspective, you have a better filtering system to filter out people that wouldn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39435]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you review them from someone else's perspective, you have a better filtering system to filter out people that wouldn't work for you,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25169]]></link><description><![CDATA[In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14273]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no mistakes, no coincidences. All events are blessings given to us to learn from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birth is the beginning of death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birth is the beginning of death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a jest, and all things show it, I thought so once, and now I know it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider what two petitions Christ couples together in His prayer: when my body, which every day is hungry, can live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider what two petitions Christ couples together in His prayer: when my body, which every day is hungry, can live without God's giving it daily bread, then and no sooner shall I believe that my soul, which daily sinneth, can spiritually live without God's forgiving it its trespasses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven, Before, behind thee, and on every hand,  Enwheel thee round! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven, Before, behind thee, and on every hand,  Enwheel thee round!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15461]]></link><description><![CDATA[That no one, no one at all, should try to search into himself! But the wallet of the person in front is carefully kept in view. [Lat., Ut nemo in sese tentat descendere, nemo!  Sed praecedenti spectatur mantica tergo.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62628]]></link><description><![CDATA[But zeal moved thee; To please thy gods thou didst it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apprentice is the beginner - the first years you work in a craft in the European sense you are an apprentice. That takes 3 or 4 years. Then you are a journeyman. You can go from one master to another and learn other tricks and other secrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is the poetry of prose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is the poetry of prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to Great Britain, the sun that gives light to all nations of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to Great Britain, the sun that gives light to all nations of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad moods become bad days, which become bad weeks, which become bad months and years. Before you know it, you're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad moods become bad days, which become bad weeks, which become bad months and years. Before you know it, you're living an unhappy life and you probably think this is normal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66703]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know a lot of people think it's monotonous, down the black lines over and over, but it's not if you're enjoying what you're doing. I love to swim and I love to train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every good painter paints what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every good painter paints what he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her actions over the years have served to diminish the power of the legislature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her actions over the years have served to diminish the power of the legislature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silence often of pure innocence Persuades, when speaking fails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silence often of pure innocence Persuades, when speaking fails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53642]]></link><description><![CDATA[I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20619]]></link><description><![CDATA[A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64258</guid></item></channel></rss>