<?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[The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice  Of one, who from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice  Of one, who from the far-off hills proclaims   Tidings of good to Zion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor. There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice  Proposing with the Prince and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor. There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice  Proposing with the Prince and Claudio.   Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursley    Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse     Is all of her. Say that thou overheard'st us;      And bid her steal into the pleached bower,       Where honeysuckles, ripened by the sun,        Forbid the sun to enter--like favorites,         Made proud by princes, that advance their pride          Against that power that bred it. There will she hide her           To listen our propose. This is thy office.            Bear thee well in it and leave us alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus   For some years now I have read through the Bible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus   For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because swans mate for life, I don't think its that big a deal. First of all, if you're a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because swans mate for life, I don't think its that big a deal. First of all, if you're a swan, you're probably not going to find a swan that looks much better than the one you've got, so why not mate for life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This additional step will provide an extra layer of protection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31105]]></link><description><![CDATA[This additional step will provide an extra layer of protection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20394]]></link><description><![CDATA[To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can form a coalition very quickly but this may undermine its stability ... or we can take our time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34781]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can form a coalition very quickly but this may undermine its stability ... or we can take our time and design a coalition government that will be stable and stay the course for four years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51514]]></link><description><![CDATA[When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall, then winter is at hand;  When the sun sets, who doth not look for night?   Untimely storms makes men expect a dearth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16445]]></link><description><![CDATA[When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, the blow with an agreement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As large as life, and twice as natural. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2810]]></link><description><![CDATA[As large as life, and twice as natural.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in  At sixty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9790]]></link><description><![CDATA[But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in  At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil,   And find a deuced balance with the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to dispel the myth that when you put a wedding ring on a woman, her brain stops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3316]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need a rest. You know what to get worked up about and what to get rid of. And you know when it's time to take care of yourself, for yourself. To do something that makes you stronger, faster, more complete. Because you know it's never too late to have a life. And never too late to change one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is silver; silence is golden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is silver; silence is golden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over her hung a canopy of state, Not of rich tissue, nor of spangled gold,  But of a substance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over her hung a canopy of state, Not of rich tissue, nor of spangled gold,  But of a substance, though not animate,   Yet of a heavenly and spiritual mould,    That only eyes of spirits might behold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling,  To thought and impulse while they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling,  To thought and impulse while they flow,   That can no comfort bring,    That can, that can no comfort bring,     With those exciting scenes will blend,      O'er pleasure's pathway thrown;       But mem'ry is the only friend        That grief can call its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876  Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, "Be thou exalted," and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once. His Christian life ceases to be the complicated thing it had been before and becomes the very essence of simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an imaging system that's unique. It images physiology instead of anatomy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an imaging system that's unique. It images physiology instead of anatomy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just glad this is over. That's the biggest thing right now. We know what the punishment is and we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40453]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just glad this is over. That's the biggest thing right now. We know what the punishment is and we're ready to move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in;  But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62203]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in;  But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own;   'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She stood breast-high amid the corn, Clasp'd by the golden light of morn,  Like the sweetheart of the sun, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58293]]></link><description><![CDATA[She stood breast-high amid the corn, Clasp'd by the golden light of morn,  Like the sweetheart of the sun,   Who many a glowing kiss had won.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has anything to cash out. I think this year people are going to be feeling pretty poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41559]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has anything to cash out. I think this year people are going to be feeling pretty poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We miss him as a teammate. But we could have won these games (Notre Dame and Wisconsin) with or without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37399]]></link><description><![CDATA[We miss him as a teammate. But we could have won these games (Notre Dame and Wisconsin) with or without him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19791]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and expectations, and yet which fails so regularly, as love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18373]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're going to win games you aren't supposed to win and lose games you aren't supposed to lose. We weren't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32705]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're going to win games you aren't supposed to win and lose games you aren't supposed to lose. We weren't supposed to lose this game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60117]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw how different life was on different sides of the same city. I saw the fear in the eyes of people who were not free. I saw the gratitude of people toward the United States for all that we had done. I felt goosebumps as I got off a military train and heard the Army band strike up "Stars and Stripes Forever."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on old habits.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27046]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children sweeten labours; but they make misfortunes more bitter. They increase the care of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20264]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems  To lie before us like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems  To lie before us like a land of dreams,   So various, so beautiful, so new,    Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,     Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66096]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6242]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you do, don't do it halfway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26568]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moon rocks are OK when everyone is eating]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hated every minute of training, but I said, \'Don\'t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66754]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hated every minute of training, but I said, \'Don\'t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.\']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15533]]></link><description><![CDATA[February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15533</guid></item></channel></rss>