<?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[I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There come nought out of the sacke but what was there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There come nought out of the sacke but what was there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit is stronger than nature. [Lat., Consuetudo natura potentior est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I know they've always told you/Selfishness was wrong/Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I know they've always told you/Selfishness was wrong/Yet it was for me, not you, I came to write this song/]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65021]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dead Bee maketh no Hony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49009]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dead Bee maketh no Hony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30152]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38397]]></link><description><![CDATA[By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   The common custom is, when the physician has given over his patient, then and not till then to send for the minister, not so much to inquire into the man's condition and to give him suitable advice as to minister comfort and to speak peace to him at a venture. But let me tell you that herein you put an extremely difficult task upon us, in expecting that we should pour wine and oil into the wound before it be searched, and speak smooth and comfortable things to a man that is but just brought to a sense of the long course of a lewd and wicked life impenitently continued in. Alas! what comfort can we give to men in such a case? We are loth to drive them to despair; and yet we must not destroy them by presumption; pity and good nature do strongly tempt us to make the best of their case and to give them all the little hopes which with any kind of reason we can --and God knows it is but very little that we can give to such persons upon good ground, for it all depends upon the degree and sincerity of their repentance, which God only knows, and we can but guess at.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss, And that with thee no other odour is?  'Tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14065]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's this that myrrh doth still smell in thy kiss, And that with thee no other odour is?  'Tis doubt, my Postumus, he that doth smell   So sweetly always, smells not very well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word;  Well for those who have no fear,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word;  Well for those who have no fear,   Looking seaward well assured    That the word the vessel brings     Is the word they wish to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2484]]></link><description><![CDATA[A degenerate nobleman, or one that is proud of his birth, is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise. [Ger., Es ist dem Menschen leichter und gelaufiger, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16167]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier and handier for men to flatter than to praise. [Ger., Es ist dem Menschen leichter und gelaufiger, zu schmeicheln als zu loben.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I remind the government of its international obligation to respect the right of peaceful assembly, and I remind its security ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41095]]></link><description><![CDATA[I remind the government of its international obligation to respect the right of peaceful assembly, and I remind its security forces of their obligation to use only minimum necessary force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49872]]></link><description><![CDATA[The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12528]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all wear some disguise, make some professions, use some artifice, to set ourselves off as being better than we are; and yet it is not denied that we have some good intentions and praiseworthy qualities at bottom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   Our critical day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915   Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old soldiers never die; They fade away! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old soldiers never die; They fade away!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maka le wakan -- the land is sacred. These words are at the core of our being. The land is our mother, the rivers our blood. Take away our land and we die. That is, the Indian in us dies. We'd become just suntanned white men, the jetsam snd floatsam of your great melting pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And o'er the hills and far away, Beyond their utmost purple rim,  Beyond the night, across the day,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43318]]></link><description><![CDATA[And o'er the hills and far away, Beyond their utmost purple rim,  Beyond the night, across the day,   Thro' all the world she followed him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which is not worth speaking they sing. [Fr., Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'etre dit, on le ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56445]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is not worth speaking they sing. [Fr., Ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'etre dit, on le chante.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41633]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't see that I'm going to be a much different person? I signed the contract.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate;  How can I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57128]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Dormer, how can I behold thy fate, And not the wonders of thy youth relate;  How can I see the gay, the brave, the young,   Fall in the cloud of war, and lie unsung!    In joys of conquest he resigns his breath,     And, filled with England's glory, smiles in death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20925]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself the most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to no purpose to boast of Christ, if we have not an evidence of His graces in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to no purpose to boast of Christ, if we have not an evidence of His graces in our hearts and lives. But unto whom He is the hope of future glory, unto them He is the life of present grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is there no God, but trying getting a plumber on weekends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, nature was his book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, nature was his book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  Then are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Columba, Abbot of Iona, Missionary, 597 Commemoration of Ephrem of Syria, Deacon, Hymnographer, Teacher, 373  Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42949]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach: Not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre; but patient, not a brawler, not covetous;  One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;   (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The destruction of the poor is their poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The destruction of the poor is their poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21051]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea shops]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of coaches -- those who have been fired, and those who will be fired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57499]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two kinds of coaches -- those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11540]]></link><description><![CDATA[False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruel as death, and hungry at the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And rank for her meant duty, various, Yet equal in its worth, done worthily.  Command was service; humblest service ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13050]]></link><description><![CDATA[And rank for her meant duty, various, Yet equal in its worth, done worthily.  Command was service; humblest service done   By willing and discerning souls was glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65289]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion and atheism will both survive it [the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Time Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16742]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operatingmanual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operatingmanual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19460]]></link><description><![CDATA[For historians ought to be precise, truthful, and quite unprejudiced, and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should cause them to swerve from the path of truth, whose mother is history, the rival of time, the depository of great actions, the witness of what is past, the example and instruction of the present, the monitor of the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give a sucker an even break.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64641</guid></item></channel></rss>