<?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 setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55814]]></link><description><![CDATA[The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50007]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have money is a feare, not to have it a griefe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely  The pangs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27392]]></link><description><![CDATA[For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely  The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,   The insolence of office, and the spurns    That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,     When he himself might his quietus make      With a bare bodkin?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school-fees are heavy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally the ridiculous touches the sublime. [Fr., En general, le ridicule touche au sublime.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or the seas; they are in the hearts and minds of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19886]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can deny that Chief the Honourable M.A. Nanga, M.P. was the most approachable politician in the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4620]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can deny that Chief the Honourable M.A. Nanga, M.P. was the most approachable politician in the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57424]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46078]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. -Henry David Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm speechless and so happy to be in the finals. As a kid, I always looked up to people above ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32182]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm speechless and so happy to be in the finals. As a kid, I always looked up to people above me to see what they could do. I think I passed some of them, most of them, and I'm happy about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39304]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hurt really bad. It was like a lot of pressure, burning. I kept on saying, 'Stop touching it.' It felt like people were squeezing on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,  Or that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12013]]></link><description><![CDATA[O that this too too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,  Or that the Everlasting had not fixed   His canon 'gainst self-slaughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're down 1-0 in a mini playoff series. We'll bounce back. We have to come out hungrier and with more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32798]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're down 1-0 in a mini playoff series. We'll bounce back. We have to come out hungrier and with more hustle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under any system, an element of discretions has to be exercised, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under any system, an element of discretions has to be exercised,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11065]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nobody who is not dangerous for someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51547]]></link><description><![CDATA[So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Sid's suicide note:)WE HAD A DEATHPACT I HAVE TO KEEPMY HALF OF THEBARGAIN.PLEASE BURY MEPTONEXT TO MY BABY.BURY ME IN ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52583]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Sid's suicide note:)WE HAD A DEATHPACT I HAVE TO KEEPMY HALF OF THEBARGAIN.PLEASE BURY MEPTONEXT TO MY BABY.BURY ME IN MYLEATHER JACKET,JEANS AND MOTORCYCLE BOOTSGOODBYE]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius and its rewards are briefly told: A liberal nature and a niggard doom,  A difficult journey to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius and its rewards are briefly told: A liberal nature and a niggard doom,  A difficult journey to a splendid tomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the nature of researchyou don't know what in hell you're doing. -'Doc' Edgerton. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9423]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the nature of researchyou don't know what in hell you're doing. -'Doc' Edgerton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster. -As You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expense, and my expense is equal to my wishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42795]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic; but there was never a time during my command when I would not have chosen some settlement by reason rather than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2454]]></link><description><![CDATA[So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon and asked, "What if?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole town laughed at my great-grandfather, just because he worked hard and saved his money. True, working at the hardware store didn't pay much, but he felt it was better than what everybody else did, which was go up to the volcano and collect the gold nuggets it shot out every day. It turned out he was right. After forty years, the volcano petered out. Everybody left town, and the hardware store went broke. Finally he decided to collect gold nuggets too, but there weren't many left by then. Plus, he broke his leg and the doctor's bills were real high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who fears his servants is less than a servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51607]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who fears his servants is less than a servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only complicated stupid moves which make us wonder at the possibility that there may be something to them -which- we are missing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is the thing you forget with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is the thing you forget with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebrate this day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61249]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birthday of Washington. We are met to celebrate this day. Washington is the mightiest name on earth--long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty; still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name an eulogy is expected. It can not be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of Washington is alike impossible. Let none attempt it. In solemn awe pronounce the name and in its naked, deathless splendor leave it shining on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54645]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to love and be wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25831]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to love and be wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand year a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise:  But while one little nap he snatched, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45060]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand year a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise:  But while one little nap he snatched,   It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To perpetuate the clerical role of answer man, the layman when inside the church building must act as if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6356]]></link><description><![CDATA[To perpetuate the clerical role of answer man, the layman when inside the church building must act as if he has only half a brain, while outside, in the world, he is expected to be an ambassador for Christ, a lay transmitter of faith. Outside, he is to be informed and vocal; inside, he must appear ignorant and mute as a sheep. Christians have within them many questions -- questions that are at once elementary and profound, questions that would ripple the water were they raised. However, because a Christian is supposed to have "answers", life's important questions are not discussed outside the church building; and, because the pastor is the educated, spiritual authority, they are not discussed inside either.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who teach the mind its proper face to scan, And hold the faithful mirror up to man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28894]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class for some egregious blunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time. -Georgia O'Keeffe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53755]]></link><description><![CDATA[And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. [Deuteronomy 10:12].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2438]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Step by step and the thing is done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Step by step and the thing is done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13550]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. -Kahlil Gibran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,  The glass of fashion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,  The glass of fashion and the mould of form,   Th' observed of all observers, quite, quite down!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is a society without a heroic dimension? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19252]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is a society without a heroic dimension?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66104]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66104</guid></item></channel></rss>