<?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[Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20544]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet. -Joseph Joubert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Piglet, the Sheep, and the GoatA young pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Piglet, the Sheep, and the GoatA young pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a Sheep. On one occasion when the shepherd laid hold of him, he grunted and squeaked and resisted violently. The Sheep and the Goat complained of his distressing cries, saying, He often handles us, and we do not cry out. To this the Pig replied, Your handling and mine are very different things. He catches you only for your wool, or your milk, but he lays hold on me for my very life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think our voice got heard loud and clear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think our voice got heard loud and clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47627]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None is borne Master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49659]]></link><description><![CDATA[None is borne Master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find yourself, think for yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22759]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find yourself, think for yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again. [Lat., Vestigia terrent  Omnia te adversum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The footsteps are terrifying, all coming towards you and none going back again. [Lat., Vestigia terrent  Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3284]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.  [Fr., L'heure de la justice ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.  [Fr., L'heure de la justice ne sonne pas   Aux cadrans de ce monde.]   - Maurice Maeterlinck, Measure of the Hours,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Toronto, the Maple Leaf emblem is as strong as the New York Yankees, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28658]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Toronto, the Maple Leaf emblem is as strong as the New York Yankees,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're never a loser until you quit trying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21661]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're never a loser until you quit trying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry not about the possible troubles of the future; for if they come, you are but anticipating and adding to their weight; and if they do not come, your worry is useless; and in either case it is weak and in vain, and a distrust of God's providence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what everybody in the country wants to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34082]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what everybody in the country wants to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20471]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59569]]></link><description><![CDATA[The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common report is not always wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common report is not always wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Ignorance Thou art fall'n man's best friend! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Ignorance Thou art fall'n man's best friend!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to thatdegree we are wealthy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21380]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the degree we can live without the things of this world, to thatdegree we are wealthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And truly, I'll devise some honest slanders To stain my cousin with. One doth not know  How much an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56551]]></link><description><![CDATA[And truly, I'll devise some honest slanders To stain my cousin with. One doth not know  How much an ill word may empoison liking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking about patterns of behavior. What is striking about this is that it suggests that the rate (of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28462]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking about patterns of behavior. What is striking about this is that it suggests that the rate (of disorders) in these much younger children, aged 2-5, are not very different from what they will be in children of 9 or 14.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43437]]></link><description><![CDATA["Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast," And therefore proper at a sheriff's feast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're very eager to get started. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40236]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're very eager to get started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You would think anyone with a life-or-death decision would want the best information possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36947]]></link><description><![CDATA[You would think anyone with a life-or-death decision would want the best information possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52709]]></link><description><![CDATA[The children will not leave unless I do. I shall not leave unless their father does, and the King will not leave the country in any circumstances whatever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47236]]></link><description><![CDATA[People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn't do anywhere else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13951]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate--that's my philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict with the obligations of their job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sword laid by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48718]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sword laid by, Which eats into itself, and rusts ingloriously.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortunately I know how to counter it, the man who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortunately I know how to counter it, the man who did the waking buys the man who was sleeping a drink. The man who was sleeping drinks it while listening to a proposition, from the man who did the waking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63185]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   In prayer we express deep penitence and contrition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   In prayer we express deep penitence and contrition for our shortcomings, using sorrowful and self-accusing words. And this often in all sincerity. But, at other times, we are not really much disturbed about it; or, at least, not nearly so much as our heaped-up language would imply. What we imagine that we are achieving through this unreality I do not know. We shall not fool the All-wise; nor induce Him to believe that we are anything other, or better, than we actually are! Were it not saner to tell Him the truth, exactly as it is -- not that we are overwhelmed with sorrow for our sinfulness, if it is not so; but rather this, that, to all our other sinfulness, we have added this last and crowning sinfulness, that we are not much worried about it, or, at least, not nearly as much as we ought to be. Be pleased, in pity, to grant us such measure of sorrow for our failures as will lead us to a true repentance; and, through that, to a new way of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty is my best quality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty is my best quality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to give it up to Evanston. They went into their trap and we stopped attacking and we played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32374]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to give it up to Evanston. They went into their trap and we stopped attacking and we played timid. We were lucky we were able to hang on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So closely our whims on our miseries tread, That the laugh is awak'd ere the tear can be dried. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50676]]></link><description><![CDATA[So closely our whims on our miseries tread, That the laugh is awak'd ere the tear can be dried.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[but it is only a small snapshot of what is going on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39734]]></link><description><![CDATA[but it is only a small snapshot of what is going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47106]]></link><description><![CDATA[...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty is said to be less. In other words, men are thought to be more under the control of extra-legal authorities, and to defer more to those around them, in pursuing even their lawful and innocent occupations, than in almost every other country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling,  To thought and impulse while they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling,  To thought and impulse while they flow,   That can no comfort bring,    That can, that can no comfort bring,     With those exciting scenes will blend,      O'er pleasure's pathway thrown;       But mem'ry is the only friend        That grief can call its own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is sorrow's salve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is sorrow's salve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62710]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62710</guid></item></channel></rss>