<?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[Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight;  Farewell awhile to him and thee,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yon Sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight;  Farewell awhile to him and thee,   My native land--Good Night!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... then the world 's mine oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22153]]></link><description><![CDATA[... then the world 's mine oyster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49076]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269   The offertory is the first essential action of the Liturgy, because in it we make the costly and solemn oblation, under tokens, of our very selves and all our substance, that they may be transformed, quickened, and devoted to the interests of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans of all faiths should be concerned whenever a house of worship is threatened. Religious and political leaders must speak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans of all faiths should be concerned whenever a house of worship is threatened. Religious and political leaders must speak out against the anti-Muslim bigotry that can prompt such threats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad Dorismar agreed to cooperate, but next time I would prefer a Mexican actress, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36592]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad Dorismar agreed to cooperate, but next time I would prefer a Mexican actress,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26862]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the doubts and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the doubts and difficulties that beset us; they will guide our children and our children's children in the paths of prosperity and peace, while America shall hold her place in the family of nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the sin which is not Sin in itself? Can circumstance make sin  Or virtue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48780]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the sin which is not Sin in itself? Can circumstance make sin  Or virtue?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted. [Lat., Cavendum est ne major poena quam culpa sit; et ne iisdem de causis alii plectantur, alii ne appellentur quidem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65102]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   "He cannot deny Himself" [II Tim. 2:13], means at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hildegard, Abbess of Bingen, Visionary, 1179   "He cannot deny Himself" [II Tim. 2:13], means at the same time He cannot deny His grace to the sinful, and He cannot deny the moral order in which alone He can live in fellowship with men; and we see the inviolableness of both asserted in the death of Jesus. Nothing else in the world demonstrates how real is God's love to the sinful, and how real the sin of the world is to God. And the love which comes to us through such an expression, bearing sin in all its reality, yet loving us through and beyond it, is the only love which at once forgives and regenerates the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57566]]></link><description><![CDATA[I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fire, with well-dried logs supplied, Went roaring up the chimney wide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fire, with well-dried logs supplied, Went roaring up the chimney wide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave,  With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave,  With here and there a violet bestrown,   Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave;    And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13863]]></link><description><![CDATA[One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44069]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it's boots on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24805]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie can run around the world before the truth can get it's boots on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O monstrous! but one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22929]]></link><description><![CDATA[O monstrous! but one halfpennyworth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11196]]></link><description><![CDATA[My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarf's in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It puts a price on the value of prairie dog habitat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38597]]></link><description><![CDATA[It puts a price on the value of prairie dog habitat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17477]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. -King Henry IV. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55837]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52325]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are we when we are alone? Some, when they are alone, cease to exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44978]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65325]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is all metaphor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is all metaphor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it where the flow'r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro' the myrtle boughs?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still; Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou marvell'st at my words, but hold thee still; Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that lives most dies most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49373]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that lives most dies most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative. -Maurice Chevalier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53180]]></link><description><![CDATA[In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it, when your looking for that someone, you find no one, but, once you find it, a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it, when your looking for that someone, you find no one, but, once you find it, a lot more choices start showing up? But, if you leave that first love, then, they all start drifting away? Is that love's way of testing your true feelings or to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bee beloved is above all bargaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50000]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bee beloved is above all bargaines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I?m just happy that our weather is coming in [today] and not Friday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33527]]></link><description><![CDATA[I?m just happy that our weather is coming in [today] and not Friday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46921</guid></item></channel></rss>