<?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[The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook, Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2895]]></link><description><![CDATA[His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook, Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is like a fisherman, who, having caught a fish in his net, leaves it in the water for a time; the fish continues to swim about, but all the while the net is round it, and the fishermen will snatch it out in his own good time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years;  But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14925]]></link><description><![CDATA["All honor to him who shall win the prize," The world has cried for a thousand years;  But to him who tries and fails and dies,   I give great honor and glory and tears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O villainy! Ho! let the door be lock'd. Treachery! seek it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60648]]></link><description><![CDATA[O villainy! Ho! let the door be lock'd. Treachery! seek it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53176]]></link><description><![CDATA[RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been frustrated as a council member in the past, whenever we get donated open space it's never usable. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34348]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been frustrated as a council member in the past, whenever we get donated open space it's never usable. This is the first time the land could be a benefit to the entire town to use.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wounded deer leaps highest,I've heard the hunter tell;'Tis but the ecstasy of death,And then the brake is still.The smitten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/264]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wounded deer leaps highest,I've heard the hunter tell;'Tis but the ecstasy of death,And then the brake is still.The smitten rock that gushes,The trampled steel that springs,,A cheek is always redderJust where the hectic stingsMirth is mail of anguish,In which its cautious armLest anybody spy the bloodAnd, you're hurt exclaim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45156]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26068]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[we're open to the idea of adoption. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39239]]></link><description><![CDATA[we're open to the idea of adoption.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees,  Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A host of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees,  Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32627]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know anyone who curses the way they do on the Sopranos. Not in an Italian household. I never said the word hell in front of my mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So study evermore is overshot. While it doth study to have what it would,  It doth forget to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58046]]></link><description><![CDATA[So study evermore is overshot. While it doth study to have what it would,  It doth forget to do the thing it should;   And when it hath the thing it hunteth most,    'Tis won as towns with fire; so won, so lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are encouraging people to come down and support the downtown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34458]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are encouraging people to come down and support the downtown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here lies our mutton-looking king, Whose word no man relied on,  Who never said a foolish thing   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here lies our mutton-looking king, Whose word no man relied on,  Who never said a foolish thing   No ever did a wise one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The long historian of my country's woes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The long historian of my country's woes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64548]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth exists. Only lies are invented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth exists. Only lies are invented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9753]]></link><description><![CDATA[If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to push and pull my Hispanic people into the community. I tell them learn the language, learn the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29096]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to push and pull my Hispanic people into the community. I tell them learn the language, learn the customs, be comfortable to live here. I never support segregation. I want integration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget injuries; never forget kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget injuries; never forget kindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8758]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,--all duties even.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It also puts everyone on elevated alert ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that we have emergencies we might have to deal with, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36575]]></link><description><![CDATA[It also puts everyone on elevated alert ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â that we have emergencies we might have to deal with, and the governor expects you're going to be ready to address those.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55333]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is terrible except fear itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is terrible except fear itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the bullpen did a great job and my teammates helped me out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30848]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the bullpen did a great job and my teammates helped me out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  God is always present and always working towards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  God is always present and always working towards the life of the soul and its deliverance from captivity under flesh and blood. But this inward work of God, though never ceasing or altering, is yet always and only hindered by the activity of our own nature and faculties, by bad men through their obedience to earthly passions and by good men through their striving to be good in their own way, by their natural strength and a multiplicity of holy labours and contrivances. Both these sorts of people obstruct the work of God upon their souls. For we can cooperate with God no other way than by submitting to the work of God, and seeking, and leaving ourselves to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8027]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there are probably people not ready for retirement living but not ready to take care of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there are probably people not ready for retirement living but not ready to take care of a household.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time we enjoy wasting is usually a good indicator of our real values… The best things in life feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60361]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time we enjoy wasting is usually a good indicator of our real values… The best things in life feel like we feel when we waste our time!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they willgrant others their own freedom, and give less interference ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they willgrant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another'sstate of consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which costs little is less valued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21281]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which costs little is less valued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is no disgrace: it is idleness which is a disgrace]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you can hit the jackpot, you have to put a coin in the machine]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57068]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all shopping in the same stores, so if someone hoards the toilet paper, there's less for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37323]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all shopping in the same stores, so if someone hoards the toilet paper, there's less for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25806]]></link><description><![CDATA[In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23963]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a trade hath an estate; he that hath a calling hath an office of profit and honor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a museum and I'll fill it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a museum and I'll fill it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned  All perfect combinations, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43435]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned  All perfect combinations, and he made   Us so that we could hear and understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43435</guid></item></channel></rss>