<?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[When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58835]]></link><description><![CDATA[When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet here's eglantine, Here's ivy!--take them as I used to do  Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet here's eglantine, Here's ivy!--take them as I used to do  Thy flowers, and keep them where they shall not pine.   Instruct thine eyes to keep their colours true,    And tell thy soul their roots are left in mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53465]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15120]]></link><description><![CDATA[A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They looked like a strong running team against Mount Vernon. They have some real talent on the line and have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33622]]></link><description><![CDATA[They looked like a strong running team against Mount Vernon. They have some real talent on the line and have some good running backs ... they look much improved from last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't wanna get old and stagnant and hang around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I've experienced every part of my game throughout this first week and I've liked the levels I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29174]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I've experienced every part of my game throughout this first week and I've liked the levels I've hit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19640]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13075]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65789]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The story the Leavers have been enacting for the past three million years isn’t a story of conquest and rule. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The story the Leavers have been enacting for the past three million years isn’t a story of conquest and rule. Enacting it doesn’t give them power. Enacting it gives them lives that are satisfying and meaningful to them. This is what you’ll find if you go among them. They’re not seething with discontent and rebellion, not incessantly wrangling over what should be allowed and what forbidden, not forever accusing each other of not living the right way, not living in terror of each other not going crazy because their lives seem empty and pointless, not having to stupefy themselves with drugs to get through the days, not having a new religion every week to give them something to hold on to, not forever searching for something to do or something to believe in that will make lives worth living. And – I repeat – this is not because they live close to nature or have no formal government or because they’re innately noble. This is simply because they’re enacting a story that works well for people – a story that worked well for three million years and that still works well where the Takers haven’t yet managed to stamp it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given the cultural barriers to intersex conversation, the amazing thing is that we would even expect women and men to have anything to say to each other for more than ten minutes at a stretch. The barriers are ancient -- perhaps rooted, as some paleontologist may soon discover, in the contrast between the occasional guttural utterances exchanged in male hunting bands and the extended discussions characteristic of female food-gathering groups.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power (n): The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that know anything in this world know that, as the first great opposition of hell, the world, and corrupt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7015]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that know anything in this world know that, as the first great opposition of hell, the world, and corrupt nature, is against faith to God by Christ; so the next great opposition made against us, is against our love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a decision whose time has come. Bimonthly bills have gotten high, especially in the winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32817]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a decision whose time has come. Bimonthly bills have gotten high, especially in the winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mask of gold hides all deformities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9476]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mask of gold hides all deformities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor cast one longing, ling'ring look behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63051]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion, That if by chance it be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15540]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion, That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble,  Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret,   Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was important for us to be patient and see what they were giving us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39526]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was important for us to be patient and see what they were giving us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. [Lat., Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. [Lat., Pereant amici, dum una inimici intercidant.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  It seems to me to be the best proof of an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  It seems to me to be the best proof of an evangelical disposition, that persons are not angry when reproached, and have a Christian charity for those that ill deserve it.  ... The Colloquies of Erasmus    April 30, 1998  Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922  What keeps most men in "Christian" countries from being heretics in this sense is that they do not publicly avow their disbelief: it is in better taste to be casual about lost beliefs, and a note of wistfulness generally ensures forgiveness. Obstinacy is rare. Millions do not even know that they deny essential Christian doctrines: they have never bothered to find out what the essential doctrines are. In extenuation they may plead that the evasiveness and the multiplicity of churches create a difficulty; but to be deterred by this when one's eternal destiny is said to be at stake bespeaks a glaring lack of seriousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64425]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And hold up to the sun my little taper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3520]]></link><description><![CDATA[And hold up to the sun my little taper.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11938]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my depressed stance. When you're depressed, it makes a lot of difference how you stand. The worst thing you can do is straighten up and hold your head high because then you'll start to feel better. If you're going to get any joy out of being depressed, you've got to stand like this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm  Of his own country;--seldom since that day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm  Of his own country;--seldom since that day   Has Spain had heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through thick and thin, both over Hill and Plain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through thick and thin, both over Hill and Plain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like Hezekiah's, backward runs The shadow of my days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like Hezekiah's, backward runs The shadow of my days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even cities have their graves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even cities have their graves!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18168]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jade eates as much as a good horse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49041]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jade eates as much as a good horse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27290]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089   I whould be very sorry that any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1089   I whould be very sorry that any man living should outgo me in desires that all who fear God throughout the world, especially in these nations, were of one way as well as of one heart. I know I desire it sincerely; but I do verily believe that when God shall accomplish it, it will be the effect of love, and not the cause of love. It will proceed from love, before it brings forth love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just an all-out blitz. We're bringing everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28381]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just an all-out blitz. We're bringing everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20721]]></link><description><![CDATA[for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence doth sharpen love, presence strengthens it; the one brings fuel, the other blows it till it burns clear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow;  Or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53193]]></link><description><![CDATA[For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow;  Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise;   Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53193</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></channel></rss>