<?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[I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Showing that if a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Showing that if a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All pitchers are born pitchers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63366]]></link><description><![CDATA[All pitchers are born pitchers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour, She stood as a marble would stand,  Then the Saviour bent down, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5705]]></link><description><![CDATA[All crush'd and stone-cast in behaviour, She stood as a marble would stand,  Then the Saviour bent down, and the Saviour   In silence wrote on in the sand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must chose in life between boredom and suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24963]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must chose in life between boredom and suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will go back to the old faith he learnt Beside his mother's knee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51551]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will go back to the old faith he learnt Beside his mother's knee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3243]]></link><description><![CDATA[For half a century photography has been the "art form" of the untalented. Obviously some pictures are more satisfactory than others, but where is credit due? to the designer of the camera? To the finger on the button? tso the law of averages?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59737]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, ''All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.'' And they did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no pain you are recedingA distant ship, smoke on the horizon.You are only coming through in waves.Your lips ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15471]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no pain you are recedingA distant ship, smoke on the horizon.You are only coming through in waves.Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.When I was a child I had a feverMy hands felt just like two balloons.Now I've got that feeling once againI can't explain you would not understandThis is not how I am.I have become comfortably numb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53716]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cares deny all rest to weary limbs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cares deny all rest to weary limbs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give--which is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give--which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no small pleasure in sweet water. [Lat., Est in aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61298]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no small pleasure in sweet water. [Lat., Est in aqua dulci non invidiosa voluptas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your bounty is beyond my speaking; But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your bounty is beyond my speaking; But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shall thank you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's an inspiration to everyone out here, especially guys like me who've struggled to stay in the league. He's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31414]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's an inspiration to everyone out here, especially guys like me who've struggled to stay in the league. He's a great person to model yourself after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was like, 'Cam, can you hear me?' ... He mumbled, 'Yeah,' but he wasn't there. You could tell he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41861]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was like, 'Cam, can you hear me?' ... He mumbled, 'Yeah,' but he wasn't there. You could tell he wasn't right. ... I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a wreck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A week ago, you could sense the soul of New Orleans from the people who were still around. There's no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30537]]></link><description><![CDATA[A week ago, you could sense the soul of New Orleans from the people who were still around. There's no people. It's like trying to interview someone's guitar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55556]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In years past, we've won one or two [district] games per year. We've known that we've had talent every year. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28210]]></link><description><![CDATA[In years past, we've won one or two [district] games per year. We've known that we've had talent every year. We've just never been able to put it together and play as a team. This year we've played as a team. Everybody's so excited about going to the playoffs. We just want to keep that hope alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28398]]></link><description><![CDATA[She just got the architects drawings and she's excited to get going.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adieu, delightful land of France! O my country so dear, which nourished my infancy! [Fr., Adieu, plaisant pays de France! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adieu, delightful land of France! O my country so dear, which nourished my infancy! [Fr., Adieu, plaisant pays de France!  O, ma patrie   La plus cherie,    Qui a nourrie ma jeune enfance!     Adieu, France--adieu, mes beaux jours.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. - Reflections on Life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9995]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England   I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an example on Sunday; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38540]]></link><description><![CDATA[It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great question - which I have not been able to answer - is: "What does a woman want?" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great question - which I have not been able to answer - is: "What does a woman want?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that you have sent me only a thousand? "You said nothing," you tell me; "and this cause was lost through you." You ought to give me so much the more, Sextus, as I had to blush for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over all good things certain, this is sure indeed, Suffer not the old King, for we know the breed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over all good things certain, this is sure indeed, Suffer not the old King, for we know the breed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to have one of those little beds with my name on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739   In that age they will neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Willibrord of York, Archbishop of Utrecht, Apostle of Frisia, 739   In that age they will neither marry nor be given in marriage, but will be as the angels. We are destined to a better state -- destined to rise to a spiritual consortship. So we, who shall be with God, shall be together: since we shall all be with the one God, though there be many mansions in the house of the same Father; and, in eternal life, God will still less separate them whom He has joined together, than, in this lesser life, He allows them to be separated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illustrious Predecessor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illustrious Predecessor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every subject's duty is the king's, but every subject's soul is his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say what you will, ’tis better to be left than never to have been loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, my conscience will be against it, ... I'm asking for a chance to look at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, my conscience will be against it, ... I'm asking for a chance to look at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26178]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dying while you are young is a great boon in your old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dying while you are young is a great boon in your old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23024]]></link><description><![CDATA[An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies, There to dispose this treasure in mine arms  And secretly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies, There to dispose this treasure in mine arms  And secretly to greet the empress's friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15348]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man. But art not thou thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have been invaluable in the development of the team, in every aspect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32604]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have been invaluable in the development of the team, in every aspect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32604</guid></item></channel></rss>