<?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[In a long work sleep may be naturally expected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50268]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64703]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His mind his kingdom, and his will his law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27516]]></link><description><![CDATA[His mind his kingdom, and his will his law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54398]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they are at Rome, they do there as they see done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand everybody's frustration. The bottom line is it has been a tough year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand everybody's frustration. The bottom line is it has been a tough year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool must now and then be right by chance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16335]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool must now and then be right by chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66909]]></link><description><![CDATA[If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would occupy all of East and Southeast Europe along with the greater part of the Reich. An iron curtain would fall over this enormous territory controlled by the Soviet Union, behind which nations would be slaughtered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend to all is a friend to none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64698]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend to all is a friend to none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things always happen in series. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things always happen in series.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority,--  Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51391]]></link><description><![CDATA[But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority,--  Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven   As make the angels weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  He who forgives not is not forgiven, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  He who forgives not is not forgiven, and the prayer of the Pharisee is as the weary beating of the surf of hell, while the cry of a soul out of its fire sets the heart-strings of Love trembling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is just another confirmation that redistricting brought about fair representation for the people of Texas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32417]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is just another confirmation that redistricting brought about fair representation for the people of Texas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32417</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[I want to do my best for them, and I want to want to help the team do well in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30002]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to do my best for them, and I want to want to help the team do well in 2007,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54050]]></link><description><![CDATA[What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words pay no debts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words pay no debts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN Lo, God, our God has come!   To us a Child is born, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6853]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN Lo, God, our God has come!   To us a Child is born, To us a Son is given;   Bless, bless the blessed morn! O happy, lowly lofty birth, Now God, our God, has come to earth! Rejoice, our God has come!   In love and lowliness; The Son of God has come   The sons of men to bless. God with us now descend to dwell, God in our flesh, Immanuel. Praise ye the word made flesh!   True God, true man is He. Praise ye the Christ of God!   To Him all glory be. Praise ye the Lamb that once was slain, Praise ye the king that comes to reign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63357]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slavery is but half abolished, emancipation is but half completed, while millions of freeman with votes in their hands are left without education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they don't like him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. [Lat., Spiritalis enim virtus sacramenti ita est ut lux: etsi per immundos transeat, non inquinatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53664]]></link><description><![CDATA[A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears;  Are they wet   Even yet    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears;  Are they wet   Even yet    With the thought of other years?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15095]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it to climbing up a hill,   Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour:    For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,     And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper,"      To have, when the original is dust,       A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You want fame? ... Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying. With sweat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33324]]></link><description><![CDATA[You want fame? ... Well, fame costs. And right here is where you start paying. With sweat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28126]]></link><description><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52442]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay In the gay woods and in the golden air,  Like to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wind of the sunny south! oh, still delay In the gay woods and in the golden air,  Like to a good old age released from care,   Journeying, in long serenity, away.    In such a bright, late quiet, would that I     Might wear out life like thee, mid bowers and brooks,      And, dearer yet, the sunshine of kind looks,       And music of kind voices ever nigh;        And when my last sand twinkled in the glass,         Pass silently from men as thou dost pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47769]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not. [Fr., Un tiens vaut, ce dit-on, mieux que deux tu l'auras.  L'un est sur, l'autre ne l'est pas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today  In your land and my land   And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your flag and my flag, And how it flies today  In your land and my land   And half a world away!    Rose-red and blood-red     The stripes forever gleam;      Snow-white and soul-white--       The good forefathers' dream;        Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright--         The gloried guidon of the day, a shelter through the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;  The ornament ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56555]]></link><description><![CDATA[That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect, For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;  The ornament of beauty is suspect,   A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.    So thou be good, slander doth but approve     Thy worth the greater, being wooed of time;      For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,       And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope, he called, belief In God,--work, worship . . . therefore let us pray! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope, he called, belief In God,--work, worship . . . therefore let us pray!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The facts of the present won't sit still for a portrait. They are constantly vibrating, full of clutter and confusion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and His SonsA father, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his sons would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and His SonsA father, being on the point of death, wished to be sure that his sons would give the same attention to his farm as he himself had given it. He called them to his bedside and said, My sons, there is a great treasure hid in one of my vineyards. The sons, after his death, took their spades and mattocks and carefully dug over every portion of their land. They found no treasure, but the vines repaid their labor by an extraordinary and superabundant crop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought upon one pair of English legs Did march three Frenchmen. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 6. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55957]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought upon one pair of English legs Did march three Frenchmen. -King Henry V. Act iii. Sc. 6.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23992]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29603]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The market's extremely skittish. There's concerns about strong economic growth and tomorrow's (jobs) number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The market's extremely skittish. There's concerns about strong economic growth and tomorrow's (jobs) number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose? Is pain to themLess pain, less to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25303]]></link><description><![CDATA[But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose? Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure? Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive. - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before high school I really wanted to play basketball and play in the NBA and all of that stuff. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before high school I really wanted to play basketball and play in the NBA and all of that stuff. I still miss it. Once I saw that baseball could maybe take me somewhere, I decided to pursue it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43557]]></link><description><![CDATA[One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be able to react to negatives as well as positives. It's a learning process. I think the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32876]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be able to react to negatives as well as positives. It's a learning process. I think the girls reacted well and continued to play hard. They didn't get down on themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year,  A handsome house to lodge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61791]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year,  A handsome house to lodge a friend,   A river at my garden's end,    A terrace walk, and half a rood     Of land, set out to plant a wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61791</guid></item></channel></rss>