<?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[Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1959]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adam, well may we labour, still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things do not change, we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things do not change, we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scalded head feares cold water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scalded head feares cold water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's really courageous, really has a lot of heart to get out there and do what she did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39615]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's really courageous, really has a lot of heart to get out there and do what she did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country. In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64246]]></link><description><![CDATA[How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is conceived well is expressed clearly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/995]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is conceived well is expressed clearly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air,  And fly well know whither,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air,  And fly well know whither,   And rest I well know where.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  We can all call to mind movements which have begun as pure upsurges of fresh spiritual vitality, breaking through and revolting against the hardened structure of the older body, and claiming, in the name of the Spirit, liberty from outward forms and institutions. And we have seen how rapidly they develop their own forms, their own structures of thought, of language, and of organisation. It would surely be a very unbiblical view of human nature and history to think -- as we so often, in our pagan way, do -- that this is just an example of the tendency of all things to slide down from a golden age to an age of iron, to identify the spiritual with the disembodied, and to regard visible structure as equivalent to sin. We must rather recognise here a testimony to the fact that Christianity is, in its very heart and essence, not a disembodied spirituality, but life in a visible fellowship, a life which makes such total claim upon us, and so engages our total powers, that nothing less than the closest and most binding association of men with one another can serve its purpose.  ... Lesslie Newbigin, The Household of God February 2, 2000 THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  Persons that are well affected to religion, that receive instructions of piety with pleasure and satisfaction, often wonder how it comes to pass that they make no greater progress in that religion which they so much admire. Now the reason of it is this: it is because religion lives only in their head, but something else has possession of their heart; and therefore they continue from year to year mere admirers and praisers of piety, without ever coming up to the reality and perfection of its precepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a genius when he is dreaming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a genius when he is dreaming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a variable rate mortgage, now is the time to refinance and lock in a fixed rate to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35357]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a variable rate mortgage, now is the time to refinance and lock in a fixed rate to protect yourself in the long run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine.  Of all sad words experience gleans,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Moral is that gardeners pine, Whene'er no pods adorn the vine.  Of all sad words experience gleans,   The saddest are: "It might have beans."    (The did not make this up myself:     'Twas in a book upon my shelf.      It's witty, but I don't deny       It's rather Whittier than I.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christian love, which applies to all, even to one's enemies, is the worst adversary of Communism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't vote for something that's going to give the mayor that kind of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38123]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't vote for something that's going to give the mayor that kind of power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53545]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When John finishes his current suspension, if he is serious about becoming a referee, it might give him a greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35959]]></link><description><![CDATA[When John finishes his current suspension, if he is serious about becoming a referee, it might give him a greater appreciation of the difficulties that go with the job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54671]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should wait patiently until tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28841]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should wait patiently until tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,  If both remain alive. To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which of them shall I take? Both? One? Or neither? Neither can be enjoyed,  If both remain alive. To take the widow   Exasperates, makes mad her sister Goneril;    And hardly shall I carry out my side,     Her husband being alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene -- in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all need each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64763]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all need each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, remember always that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong. [Or, What doesn't kill youmakes you stronger.]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21074]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong. [Or, What doesn't kill youmakes you stronger.].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray, n:. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray, n:. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a little leery with the weather like it is. The ice was about six inches thick. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32847]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a little leery with the weather like it is. The ice was about six inches thick. It was safe where we went.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat;  Earth felt the wound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat;  Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat   Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe    That all was lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15771]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7184]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were ten lepers healed, and only one turned back to give thanks, but it is to be noticed that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6893]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were ten lepers healed, and only one turned back to give thanks, but it is to be noticed that our Lord did not recall His gift from the other nine because of their lack of gratitude. When we begin to lessen our acts of kindness and helpfulness because we think those who receive do not properly appreciate what is done for them, it is time to question our own motives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, white innocence, That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide  Thine awful and serenest countenance  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20965]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, white innocence, That thou shouldst wear the mask of guilt to hide  Thine awful and serenest countenance   From those who know thee not!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of the possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of the possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4482]]></link><description><![CDATA[In great straits and when hope is small, the boldest counsels are the safest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three weeks into the NFL season, it's hard to say which team is the best in the business, ... So ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three weeks into the NFL season, it's hard to say which team is the best in the business, ... So far, I've got it narrowed down to Tampa Bay, Cincinnati and [the University of Southern California].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19860]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anybody who is 25 or 30 years old has physical scars from all sorts of things, from tuberculosis to polio. It's the same with the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19071</guid></item></channel></rss>