<?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[So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night,  They have driven sleep from mine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2781]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night,  They have driven sleep from mine eyes away;   I will go down to the chapel and pray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty-four times a second.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64634]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive;  His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow,   That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw:    Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand,     That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand,      Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut.       And if at first he fail, his second summersaut        He instantly assays and from his nimble ring,         Still yarking never leaves, until himself he fling          Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insofar as theology is an attempt to define and clarify intellectual positions, it is apt to lead to discussion, to differences of opinion, even to controversy, and hence to be divisive. And this has had a strong tendency to dampen serious discussion of theological issues in most groups, and hence to strengthen the general anti-intellectual bias...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64469]]></link><description><![CDATA[It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's always happy, so that makes me really happy, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39363]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's always happy, so that makes me really happy, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I did a thing on Malcolm in the Middle which I loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I did a thing on Malcolm in the Middle which I loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All children have creative power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63954]]></link><description><![CDATA[All children have creative power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18805]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a sign of your own worth sometimes if you are hated by the right people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To him that will, waies are not wanting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50008]]></link><description><![CDATA[To him that will, waies are not wanting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27150]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50920]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit  He brake them to our faces, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19081]]></link><description><![CDATA[God keeps a niche In Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit  He brake them to our faces, and denied   That our close kisses should impair their white,--    I know we shall behold them raised, complete,     The dust swept from their beauty, glorified,      New Memnons singing in the great God-light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64535]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you come to the end of your rope...tie a knot and hang on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21195]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you come to the end of your rope...tie a knot and hang on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58296]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt come out of a warme Sunne into God's blessing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59805]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But when ill indeed, E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.   - George Colman ("The Younger"), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56235]]></link><description><![CDATA[But when ill indeed, E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.   - George Colman ("The Younger"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Specialization is for insects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Specialization is for insects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48003]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am pleased to be praised by a man so praised as you, father. [Words used by Hector.] [Lat., Laetus sum  Laudari me abs te, pater, laudato viro.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They knocked out the roof in three hours. They knew what they were doing. That's God's miracle; he filled the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30024]]></link><description><![CDATA[They knocked out the roof in three hours. They knew what they were doing. That's God's miracle; he filled the need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The faint old man shall lean his silver head To feel thee; thou shalt kiss the child asleep,  And dry the moistened curls that overspread   His temples, while his breathing grows more deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart hath one poor string to stay it by, Which holds but till thy news be uttered,  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44474]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart hath one poor string to stay it by, Which holds but till thy news be uttered,  And then all this thou seest is but a clod   And module of confounded royalty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brightest of all things, the sun, hath its spots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brightest of all things, the sun, hath its spots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is the illusion of permanance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is the illusion of permanance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A satellite has no conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9308]]></link><description><![CDATA[A satellite has no conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue  Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56550]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, 'tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword, whose tongue  Outvenoms all the worms of Nile, whose breath   Rides on the posting winds and doth belie    All corners of the world. Kings, queens. and states,     Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave      This viperous slander enters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is mostly about sex and not much about having children; and life is the other way around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66450]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are only trying to protect our investments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32606]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are only trying to protect our investments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, really, this appears the common case Of putting too much Sabbath into Sunday--  But what is your opinion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, really, this appears the common case Of putting too much Sabbath into Sunday--  But what is your opinion, Mrs. Grundy?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heating season is not over, but for today, it's a decrease of significant proportion and that makes it a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37941]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heating season is not over, but for today, it's a decrease of significant proportion and that makes it a good day for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of times, people think that this is New York, and you're never going to find an honest person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40695]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of times, people think that this is New York, and you're never going to find an honest person who's going to turn something in. But people are honest. They really are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first day a guest, the second day a guest, the third day a calamity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form:  Mounts from her funeral pyre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form:  Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame,   And soars and shines, another and the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to continue the struggle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28615]]></link><description><![CDATA[to continue the struggle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. [A morning sun and a wine-bred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13781]]></link><description><![CDATA[A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well. [A morning sun and a wine-bred child and a Latin-bred woman seldom end well.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me. But it can keep him from lynching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47629]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me. But it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfectio]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3426</guid></item></channel></rss>