<?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[A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: the mad daughter of a wise mother]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed  Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep hath its own world, A boundary between the things misnamed  Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world,   And a wide realm of wild reality,    And dreams in their development have breath,     And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Somebody said to me not too long ago, 'Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve', and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hasn't healed yet, but it's functional. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34720]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hasn't healed yet, but it's functional.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Previously, movies dealing with Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians have always had the stigma that they are automatically guilty. This film ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Previously, movies dealing with Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians have always had the stigma that they are automatically guilty. This film moves the issue closer to a more neutral stance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 The deaf may hear the Saviour's voice, The fettered tongue its chains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 The deaf may hear the Saviour's voice, The fettered tongue its chains may break; But the deaf heart, the dumb by choice, The laggard soul that will not wake, The guilt that scorns to be forgiven -- These baffle e'en the spells of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62306]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57620]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol is what fathers of the Church have called "the bondage of the will". This bondage becomes most painfully apparent in our lives when we earnestly feel the need of changing but cannot; when we are attracted to another value that for one reason or another conflicts with the desires of our true god --that value nearest and dearest to us. But our true god lies so deeply inside us that often we are not even consciously aware of its presence or of what it actually is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43638]]></link><description><![CDATA[On, Amos Cottle!--Phoebus! what a name!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did thrust (as now) in other's corn his sickle.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did thrust (as now) in other's corn his sickle.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8914</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[Hundreds of men were turned into beasts, Like the guests at Circe's horrible feasts,  By the magic of ale ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hundreds of men were turned into beasts, Like the guests at Circe's horrible feasts,  By the magic of ale and cider.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54399]]></link><description><![CDATA[When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser. And as soon as you see a finer morality, the grosser becomes relatively immoral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64282]]></link><description><![CDATA[People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look for a thing until you find it and you'll not lose your labor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55809]]></link><description><![CDATA[The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet. -King Richard II. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The importance of controlling bacteria in the home is no different than the professional setting. We feel strongly that consumers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34414]]></link><description><![CDATA[The importance of controlling bacteria in the home is no different than the professional setting. We feel strongly that consumers must continue to have the choice to use these products.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These loggers are heavily armed, organized groups who are sometimes linked to drug traffickers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36593]]></link><description><![CDATA[These loggers are heavily armed, organized groups who are sometimes linked to drug traffickers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10098]]></link><description><![CDATA[His conversation does not show the minute hand; but he strikes the hour very correctly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is the tyrant of the imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is the tyrant of the imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14317]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The less one has to do, the less time one finds to do it in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To choose time is to save time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14593]]></link><description><![CDATA[To choose time is to save time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game wasn't as close as the score would indicate. Cam had one of his worst games of the year. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game wasn't as close as the score would indicate. Cam had one of his worst games of the year. I think he only faced something like 10 shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14580]]></link><description><![CDATA[How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46432]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we see light at the end of the tunnel, it the light of the oncoming train.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have lived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short to live the same day twice. It's a new day, get on your way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short to live the same day twice. It's a new day, get on your way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9762]]></link><description><![CDATA[A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure hours that men are made or marred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure hours that men are made or marred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52016]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world of reality, life, and human action there is no such thing as interests independent of ideas, preceding them temporarily and logically. What a man considers his interest is the result of his ideas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In terms of risk, if something is not doing well, we are able to get out of it and take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33427]]></link><description><![CDATA[In terms of risk, if something is not doing well, we are able to get out of it and take risk with other, newer merchandise. We've just gotten a lot better at managing our inventories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The search for truth is more precious than its possession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47773]]></link><description><![CDATA[The search for truth is more precious than its possession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It gave me chills. The men carrying Jesus and the women carrying Mary, and I'm not even Catholic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29141]]></link><description><![CDATA[It gave me chills. The men carrying Jesus and the women carrying Mary, and I'm not even Catholic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.  O poor Robinson Crusoe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43040]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.  O poor Robinson Crusoe!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5017</guid></item></channel></rss>