<?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[To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49994]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure, we got a couple lucky bounces at the end of the game, but we had to put ourselves in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure, we got a couple lucky bounces at the end of the game, but we had to put ourselves in a position to take advantage of them. We never would have been there if we hadn't awoken from the funk we were in at the start.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it so nominated in the bond? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it so nominated in the bond? -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're in a Manhattan building with 30 apartments that's one thing. But if you're the guy who parks your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39331]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're in a Manhattan building with 30 apartments that's one thing. But if you're the guy who parks your car in front of a suburban house in the middle of the night and you've got the screen from your laptop glowing, well...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53412]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn't work, use the other side of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5964]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn't work, use the other side of the brush on the other end of the child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody is being allowed to enter the area. People are being stopped in a 10- kilometer radius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody is being allowed to enter the area. People are being stopped in a 10- kilometer radius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8809]]></link><description><![CDATA[A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not a reward; it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment ; it is a result. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not a reward; it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment ; it is a result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44219]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm afraid we have become a nation of plodders, who feel that all problems can be found in books and that the answers are on a certain page.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62172]]></link><description><![CDATA[The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They hit the ball hard, give them credit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42119]]></link><description><![CDATA[They hit the ball hard, give them credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:   Break Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Continuing a short series of verse on Christ:   Break Thou the bread of life,  Dear Lord, to me, As Thou didst break the loaves   Beside the sea; Beyond the sacred page  I seek Thee, Lord; My spirit pants for Thee,  O living word! Bless Thou the truth, dear Lord,  To me, to me, As Thou didst bless the bread  By Galilee; Then shall all bondage cease,  All fetters fall; And I shall find my peace,  My All-in-All.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46787</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[We have been working with Dean Gail and the Office of the Dean of Students to make sure that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33092]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have been working with Dean Gail and the Office of the Dean of Students to make sure that the needs of our visitors are met.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they happen to notice kids being crazy ... they go to the parents and tell them about the show, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they happen to notice kids being crazy ... they go to the parents and tell them about the show, ... We've had a few families say, `Oh my God. Thank you for coming over. Yes, we need your help.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good intentions aren't good enough! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good intentions aren't good enough!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want free life, and I want fresh air; And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want free life, and I want fresh air; And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,  The crack of the whip like shots in battle,   The medley of horns, and hoofs, and heads    That wars, and wrangles, and scatters and spreads;     The green beneath and the blue above,      And dash, and danger, and life and love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No life Can be pure in its purpose or strong in its strife  And all life not be purer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20867]]></link><description><![CDATA[No life Can be pure in its purpose or strong in its strife  And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most powerful assertiveness technique is to repeat your command with the confidence that the child will soon yield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3383]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most powerful assertiveness technique is to repeat your command with the confidence that the child will soon yield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48090]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   We distrust the providence of God when, after we have used ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525   We distrust the providence of God when, after we have used all our best endeavors and begged His blessing upon them, we torment ourselves about the wise issue and event of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They want you to catch every single ball. It's a tough city sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30328]]></link><description><![CDATA[They want you to catch every single ball. It's a tough city sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When good Americans die they go to Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2421]]></link><description><![CDATA[When good Americans die they go to Paris.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames; Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt  In Twit'nham ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slow let us trace the matchless vale of Thames; Fair winding up to where the Muses haunt  In Twit'nham bowers, and for their Pope implore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People look for their leadership to lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66578]]></link><description><![CDATA[People look for their leadership to lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17762]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60896]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The studious class are their own victims; they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption,--pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism. If you come near them and see what conceits they entertain--they are abstractionists, and spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.  [Lat., Medio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs.  [Lat., Medio de fonte leporum   Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a very surprising turn of events. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33706]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a very surprising turn of events.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either every robot can dance the robot, or no robot can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either every robot can dance the robot, or no robot can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1717]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18314]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it could confuse a lot of people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be nice to people on your way up because you'll meet 'em on your way down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred can be overcome only by love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred can be overcome only by love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56989]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45164]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything depends on political developments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything depends on political developments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15224]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so I leave this world, where the heart must either break or turn to lead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's self's thy Ganymede. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's self's thy Ganymede.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890  Why do we talk and gossip so continually, seeing that we so rarely resume our silence without some hurt done to our conscience? ... Devout conversation on spiritual things helpeth not a little to spiritual progress, most of all where those of kindred mind and spirit find their ground of fellowship in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Restore to God His due in tithe and time; A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Restore to God His due in tithe and time; A tithe purloin'd cankers the whole estate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge is folly, except grace guide it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge is folly, except grace guide it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47500</guid></item></channel></rss>