<?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[Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried?  Ay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10143]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried?  Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting.   Have I not tarried?    Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening.     Still have I tarried.      Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the      kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and      the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance      to burn your lips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  Although tares, or impure vessels, are found in the church, yet this is not a reason why we should withdraw from it. It only behooves us to labor that we may be vessels of gold or of silver. But to break in pieces the vessels of earth belongs to the Lord alone, to whom a rod of iron is also given. Nor let any one arrogate to himself what is exclusively the province of the Son of God, by pretending to fan the floor, clear away the chaff, and separate all the tares by the Judgment of man. This is proud obstinacy and sacrilegious presumption, originating in a corrupt frenzy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can have sex with animals such as sheeps, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4161]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can have sex with animals such as sheeps, cows, camels and so on. However, he should kill the animal after he has his orgasm. He should not sell the meat to the people in his own village; however, selling the meat to the next door village should be fine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a tough call, but a sensible one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42403]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a tough call, but a sensible one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a solemn luxury in grief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18338]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a solemn luxury in grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can I follow my heart when it's waiting around for the rest of me to make the decision? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20184]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can I follow my heart when it's waiting around for the rest of me to make the decision?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing. Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48777]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be precocious Was in her eyes a thing the most atrocious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17505]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 Incarnate Word! Thou Word of God alone!   To live of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605 Incarnate Word! Thou Word of God alone!   To live of love, 'tis to abide with Thee. Thou knowest I love Thee, Jesus Christ, my Own!   Thy Spirit's fire of love enkindleth me. By loving Thee, I draw the Father here   Down to my heart, to stay with me always. Blest Trinity! Thou art my prisoner dear,   Of love, to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7023</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[A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29084]]></link><description><![CDATA[A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27706]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to leave out the parts that people skip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65305]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every madman considers everyone else a madman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every madman considers everyone else a madman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  Christians must learn again what Christians have always known -- how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  Christians must learn again what Christians have always known -- how to live without immediate hopes in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49276]]></link><description><![CDATA[God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes snug ballads from a cart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11024]]></link><description><![CDATA[On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now stir the fire, and close the shudders fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,  And while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now stir the fire, and close the shudders fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round,  And while the bubbling and loud-hissing urn   Throws up a steamy column, and the cups,    That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each,     So let us welcome peaceful evening in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superbly marketed, Pearl Harbor is the very model of a modern blockbuster. Will it matter that almost nothing about its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superbly marketed, Pearl Harbor is the very model of a modern blockbuster. Will it matter that almost nothing about its human drama rings true?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thy wife is a constellation of virtues; she's the moon, and thou art the man in the moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12392]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity  Under the sun.   Oh! it was pitiful!    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! for the rarity Of Christian charity  Under the sun.   Oh! it was pitiful!    Near a whole city full,     Home had she none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real Madrid is in a mess because it's suffering really high pressure and demands. We must take the initiative because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real Madrid is in a mess because it's suffering really high pressure and demands. We must take the initiative because we're at home, we're only a point behind and we can make history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56964]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For angling-rod he took a sturdy oak; For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke;  His hook was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16107]]></link><description><![CDATA[For angling-rod he took a sturdy oak; For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke;  His hook was such as heads the end of pole   To pluck down house ere fire consumes it whole;    This hook was bated with a dragon's tail,--     And then on rock he stood to bob for whale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employ a million.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law is king of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law is king of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13414]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17899]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64036]]></link><description><![CDATA[His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is president.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane,  Immovable for three days past,   Points to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ceaseless rain is falling fast, And yonder gilded vane,  Immovable for three days past,   Points to the misty main.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15768]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10068]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just frees you to be more honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39264]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just frees you to be more honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16322</guid></item></channel></rss>