<?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[Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs Were twisted gracefu' round her brows,  I took her for some Scottish Muse,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Green, slender, leaf-clad holly boughs Were twisted gracefu' round her brows,  I took her for some Scottish Muse,   By that same token,    An' come to stop those reckless vows,     Would soon be broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  The valley of the shadow of death holds no darkness for the child of God. There must be light, else there could be no shadow. Jesus is the light. He has overcome death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide would be my way of telling God that I quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide would be my way of telling God that I quit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65524]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fire i' th' flint Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame  Provokes itself and like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fire i' th' flint Shows not till it be struck; our gentle flame  Provokes itself and like the current flies   Each bound it chafes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53600]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53229]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some pursue happiness - others create it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some pursue happiness - others create it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a little wife well will'd, are great riches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61370]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a little wife well will'd, are great riches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is but little in this world which can go wrong because everything is a blessing in disguise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62225]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is but little in this world which can go wrong because everything is a blessing in disguise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/735]]></link><description><![CDATA[What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game was closer than the score indicated.(after a 1-0 game) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game was closer than the score indicated.(after a 1-0 game)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5959]]></link><description><![CDATA[A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the question, and the country be left to honest European guidance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the question, and the country be left to honest European guidance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance has no foresight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance has no foresight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is one long process of getting tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is one long process of getting tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men do not admire and delight in the same objects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50183]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men do not admire and delight in the same objects.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have always had profound ties, of respect and mutual cooperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28243]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have always had profound ties, of respect and mutual cooperation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62108]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64500]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams;  I bear light shade for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8921]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams;  I bear light shade for the leaves when laid   In their noonday dreams.    From my wings are shaken the dews that waken     The sweet buds every one,      When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,       As she dances about the sun.        I wield the flail of the lashing hail,         And whiten the green plains under,          And then again I dissolve it in rain,           And laugh as I pass in thunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?  No; the dead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon'd round, And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown'd?  No; the dead know it not, nor profit gain;   It only serves to prove the living vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea was to show that if his privacy wasn't safe, none of ours were, and it clearly proved the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea was to show that if his privacy wasn't safe, none of ours were, and it clearly proved the point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65063]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the Brazilian port with greatest infrastructure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42606]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the Brazilian port with greatest infrastructure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56347]]></link><description><![CDATA[When thought is too weak to be simply expressed, it's clear proof that it should be rejected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought it was an earthquake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36375]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought it was an earthquake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People under 60, raised on television, they remember by what they see. The churches that are using a great deal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33908]]></link><description><![CDATA[People under 60, raised on television, they remember by what they see. The churches that are using a great deal of the arts in their worship and drama and visual film are doing it in part because they realize film and television are really the language of today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54476]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of two evils I have chose the least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of two evils I have chose the least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . The dove and very blessed spirit of peace, . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12810]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . The dove and very blessed spirit of peace, . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Akaka said yesterday the future of Hawaiian programs could hinge on whether the bill is successful.] When that happens, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32562]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Akaka said yesterday the future of Hawaiian programs could hinge on whether the bill is successful.] When that happens, the courts I think will view these cases differently, ... But it will be in the hands of the courts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Horse and GroomA groom used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing down his Horse, but at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1544]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Horse and GroomA groom used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing down his Horse, but at the same time stole his oats and sold them for his own profit. Alas! said the Horse, if you really wish me to be in good condition, you should groom me less, and feed me more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24799]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64236</guid></item></channel></rss>