<?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[Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus' Fig Tree He did belittle you.. but soon he'll bebig you.. and in the springwith blooms he will wig ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus' Fig Tree He did belittle you.. but soon he'll bebig you.. and in the springwith blooms he will wig you.. in summer he'll summon a jade garbto resprig you.. and in the fallon patient twigswith fresh fruit he'll refig you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and a nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chilled hidebound hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/72]]></link><description><![CDATA[I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/72</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement has been dynamic; it confines men within its limits, while the movement had liberated them from the bondage of institutions; it looks to the past, [although] the movement had pointed forward. Though in content the institution resembles the dynamic epoch whence it proceeded, in spirit it is like the [state] before the revolution. So the Christian church, after the early period, often seemed more closely related in attitude to the Jewish synagogue and the Roman state than to the age of Christ and his apostles; its creed was often more like a system of philosophy than like the living gospel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55808]]></link><description><![CDATA[In rage deaf as the sea, hasty as fire. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness lies in our own backyard, but it's probably well hidden by crabgrass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness lies in our own backyard, but it's probably well hidden by crabgrass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, where did hunter win So delicate a skin  For her feet?   You lucky little kid,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, where did hunter win So delicate a skin  For her feet?   You lucky little kid,    You perished, so you did,     For my sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Minnesota, it's too many shots and too many chances. Once they got some pressure in our end, it was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30824]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Minnesota, it's too many shots and too many chances. Once they got some pressure in our end, it was tough to overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19395]]></link><description><![CDATA[History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness wins the confidence of princes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness wins the confidence of princes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know everyone here along Sullivan Creek is concerned about mosquitoes. I'm kind of concerned about my grandkids and my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34186]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know everyone here along Sullivan Creek is concerned about mosquitoes. I'm kind of concerned about my grandkids and my health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery brings friends, but the truth begets enmity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him laugh, who is on the right side of the hedge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him laugh, who is on the right side of the hedge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[PSALM 126 The Lord can clear the darkest skies  Can give us day for night. Make drops of sacred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6499]]></link><description><![CDATA[PSALM 126 The Lord can clear the darkest skies  Can give us day for night. Make drops of sacred sorrow rise  To rivers of delight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47382]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We made Hobart shoot the type of shot that we expect Drew to handle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36194]]></link><description><![CDATA[We made Hobart shoot the type of shot that we expect Drew to handle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who says they are not interested in politics is like a drowning man who insists he is not interested ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who says they are not interested in politics is like a drowning man who insists he is not interested in water]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labour in vain; or coals to Newcastle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15931]]></link><description><![CDATA[To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pacifism is a wonderful conviction in theory, but only in theory. Real life has a way of eventually rubbing even the most altruistic nose in a steaming pile of "F**k that".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweets to the sweet! Farewell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweets to the sweet! Farewell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50198]]></link><description><![CDATA[By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that wipes the childs nose, kisseth the mothers cheeke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has nibbled at the bay. [A poetaster.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50445]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has nibbled at the bay. [A poetaster.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curious things, habits. People themselves never know they have them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I invent nothing. I rediscover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I invent nothing. I rediscover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole world thinks I'm a slut and a whore. That's what I'm going to have to cope with for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole world thinks I'm a slut and a whore. That's what I'm going to have to cope with for the rest of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wer't not madness then To make the fox surveyor of the fold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51312]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wer't not madness then To make the fox surveyor of the fold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4495]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24318]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all laws into contempt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10647]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10314]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delay is a great procuress ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delay is a great procuress]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is memory and metaphor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Danielle probably finishes 98 percent of the time down there. She got in great position. Us guards just need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Danielle probably finishes 98 percent of the time down there. She got in great position. Us guards just need to feed her the ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5785]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58094]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never got to the bottom of streaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38998]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never got to the bottom of streaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us pardon those who have wronged us. For that which others scarcely accomplish -- I mean the blotting out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us pardon those who have wronged us. For that which others scarcely accomplish -- I mean the blotting out of their own sins by means of fasting and lamentations, and prayers, and sackcloth and ashes -- this it is possible for us easily to effect without sackcloth and ashes and fasting, if only we blot out anger from our heart, and with sincerity forgive those who have wronged us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6645</guid></item></channel></rss>