<?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[Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. -Caroline Schoeder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people change when they see the light, others when they feel the heat. -Caroline Schoeder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commonly we say a Judgment falls upon a Man for something in him we cannot abide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike my subject, I will make my song. It shall be witty, and it shan't be long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike my subject, I will make my song. It shall be witty, and it shan't be long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66347]]></link><description><![CDATA[That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Marchant that gaines not, looseth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49059]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Marchant that gaines not, looseth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blind zeal can only do harm. [Ger., Blinder Eifer schadet nur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blind zeal can only do harm. [Ger., Blinder Eifer schadet nur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 At morn I plucked a rose and give it Thee, A rose of joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 At morn I plucked a rose and give it Thee, A rose of joy and happy love and peace,  A rose with scarce a thorn:  But in the chillness of a second morn My rose bush drooped, and all its gay increase Was but one thorn that wounded me. I plucked the thorn and offered it to Thee, And for my thorn Thou gavest love and peace,  Not joy this mortal morn:  If Thou hast given much treasure for a thorn, Wilt Thou not give me for my rose increase Of gladness, and all sweets to me? My thorny rose, my love and pain, to Thee I offer, and I set my heart in peace,  And rest upon my thorn:  For verily I think to-morrow morn Shall bring me Paradise, my gift's increase, Yea, give Thy very Self to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2616]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm any hostility. -HW Longfellow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Knowledge of God can be fully given to man only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  Knowledge of God can be fully given to man only in a Person, never in a doctrine. Faith is not the holding of correct doctrine, but personal fellowship with the living God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never was anything so inconsistent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never was anything so inconsistent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prices continue to climb even though construction is under way. That means what may conceivably happen as we go along, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prices continue to climb even though construction is under way. That means what may conceivably happen as we go along, because we're locked into a number, is we may have to make cuts. If we start bumping up against the educational specifications, that's going to be tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44427]]></link><description><![CDATA[New York's such a wonderful city. Although I was at the library today. The guys are very rude. I said, "I'd like a card." He says, "You have to prove you're a citizen of New York." So I stabbed him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that hath patience hath fatt thrushes for a farthing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust not the physician; His antidotes are poison, and he slays  More than you rob. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust not the physician; His antidotes are poison, and he slays  More than you rob.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60289]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have lost all concept of time since this thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30726]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have lost all concept of time since this thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62217]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/471]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so accustomed to wearing a disguise before others that eventually we are unable to recognize ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is definitely a good sign. We definitely hope this is the breakthrough we have been looking for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41543]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is definitely a good sign. We definitely hope this is the breakthrough we have been looking for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26984]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess some of this was brought on myself, my stupidity. I don't know if it was naivety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess some of this was brought on myself, my stupidity. I don't know if it was naivety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're obviously looking forward to the Swedish Rally, as it's one of the most enjoyable rallies of the year for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31707]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're obviously looking forward to the Swedish Rally, as it's one of the most enjoyable rallies of the year for a driver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs;  To-day is sad. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59444]]></link><description><![CDATA[A shining isle in a stormy sea, We seek it ever with smiles and sighs;  To-day is sad. In the bland To-be,   Serene and lovely To-morrow lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That dude is huge! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35176]]></link><description><![CDATA[That dude is huge!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountains, rivers, earth, grasses, trees, and forests are always emanating a subtle, precious light, day and night, always emanating a subtle, precious sound, demonstrating and expounding to all people the unsurpassed ultimate truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7851]]></link><description><![CDATA[If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for God, why is he so opposed to God?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pure nonsense that a state legislator would think there's nothing he can do to benefit Native Americans. The high ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31440]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pure nonsense that a state legislator would think there's nothing he can do to benefit Native Americans. The high infant mortality rate on reservations is due to devastating poverty. Yet the state has not passed any laws in the last several years that would boost any of the health or education programs within the reservation community. As for tribal sovereignty, the only time the state wants to recognize it is when it benefits the state, as in this instance when it allows Senator Napoli to opt out of an intelligent response.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27473]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to give the roar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fir-Tree and the BrambleA fir-tree said boastingly to the Bramble, You are useful for nothing at all; while I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fir-Tree and the BrambleA fir-tree said boastingly to the Bramble, You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses. The Bramble answered: 'You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir-Tree. Better poverty without care, than riches with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes:  For who so firm that cannot be seduced? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51282]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis meet That noble minds keep ever with their likes:  For who so firm that cannot be seduced?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4359]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29112]]></link><description><![CDATA[We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47174]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is -- and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boldness be my friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boldness be my friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a long event. This is only the beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28668]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a long event. This is only the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42936]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street Till--think of that who find life so sweet!--  She hates the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street Till--think of that who find life so sweet!--  She hates the smell of roses!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26741]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28606]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16501</guid></item></channel></rss>