<?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[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. [Hebrews 11:1].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4588]]></link><description><![CDATA[My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So our lives In acts exemplarie, not only winne  Ourselves good Names, but doth to others give   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11676]]></link><description><![CDATA[So our lives In acts exemplarie, not only winne  Ourselves good Names, but doth to others give   Matter for virtuous Deedes, by which wee live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54603]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my commandment, that ye love one another, even as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. [Hebrews 13:2]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. [Hebrews 13:2].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep a cow, and the milk won't have to be watered but once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time flies like an arrow.Fruit flies like a banana. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time flies like an arrow.Fruit flies like a banana.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61768]]></link><description><![CDATA[By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to run faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28251]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to run faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -Helen Keller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The selfsame heaven That frowns on me looks sadly upon him. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The selfsame heaven That frowns on me looks sadly upon him. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power; whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it; whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our guards are really stepping up. They're getting into the lane and when (the defense) starts taking away the basket, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our guards are really stepping up. They're getting into the lane and when (the defense) starts taking away the basket, they're getting the ball to me or whoever for the lay-up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose,  And the west ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19612]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the hornet hangs in the holly hock, And the brown bee drones i' the rose,  And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock,   And summer is near its close--    It's--Oh, for the gate, and the locust lane;     And dusk, and dew, and home again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may be dumb, but I'm not stupid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That water which wall from some Alpine height is dashed, broken, and will murmur loudly, but grows limpid by its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52592]]></link><description><![CDATA[That water which wall from some Alpine height is dashed, broken, and will murmur loudly, but grows limpid by its fall. [It., Quell' onda, che ruina  Dalla pendice alpina,   Balza, si frange, e mormora    Ma limpida si fa.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34749]]></link><description><![CDATA["Waiting, are they? Waiting, are they? Well, goddam 'em, let 'em wait!" [Ethan Allen, to his physician who said "General, I fear the angels are waiting for you", quoted in Saturday Review, April 5, 1958]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never before have so many been taken for so much and left with so little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get your ideas on paper and study them. Do not let them go to waste!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8540]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights,  And I trow   The damsel, deftly shod,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinderella's lefts and rights To Geraldine's were frights,  And I trow   The damsel, deftly shod,    Has dutifully trod     Until now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65707]]></link><description><![CDATA[As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59160]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some days I practice positive thinking, and other days I'm not positive I am thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without music, life would be a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without music, life would be a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful. [Lat., Oderunt hilarem tristes tristemque jocosi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful. [Lat., Oderunt hilarem tristes tristemque jocosi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ideas fail, words come in very handy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20286]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ideas fail, words come in very handy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, savage company; but in the church With saints, and in the taverns with the gluttons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They didn't know if he was going to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33866]]></link><description><![CDATA[They didn't know if he was going to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9519]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own, and raptures swell the note. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat? Loves of his own, and raptures swell the note.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there's a lot of passion with these people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there's a lot of passion with these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12269]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing. -Seng-Ts'an. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12242]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing. -Seng-Ts'an.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman is wrong until she cries, and then she is right, instantly]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the most money we had ever seen in this house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40662]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the most money we had ever seen in this house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thick skin is a gift from God ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40231]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thick skin is a gift from God]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will look at harvest levels after this dig, and there should be more digging opportunities in the coming months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32511]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will look at harvest levels after this dig, and there should be more digging opportunities in the coming months on some beaches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No pain, no gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51016]]></link><description><![CDATA[No pain, no gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-trust is the essence of heroism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-trust is the essence of heroism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lovely living Boy, My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.   - Guillaume de Salluste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5906]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lovely living Boy, My hope, my hap, my Love, my life, my joy.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like summer seas that lave with silent tides a lonely shore, like whispering winds that stir the tops of forest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like summer seas that lave with silent tides a lonely shore, like whispering winds that stir the tops of forest trees, like a still, small voice that calls us in the watches of the night, like a child's hand that feels about a fast-closed door;  gentle, unnoticed, and oft in vain:  so is Thy coming unto us, O God. Like ships storm-driven into port, like starving souls that seek the bread they once despised, like wanderers begging refuge from the whelming night, like prodigals that seek the father's home when all is spent;  yet welcomed at the open door, arms outstretched and kisses for our shame;  so is our coming unto Thee, 0 God. Like flowers uplifted to the sun, like trees that bend before the storm, like sleeping seas that mirror cloudless skies, like a harp to the hand, like an echo to a cry, like a song to the heart;  for all our stubbornness, our failure, and our sin:  so would we have been to Thee, O God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25307]]></link><description><![CDATA['Humph!' grunted Mr. Romford, seeing his worst fears about to be realized. He had dreamt that he had timbled over a poodle in the drawing-room, and squirted a bottle of porter right into a lady's face. 'Who's goin' besides ourselves?' asked Romford, wishing to know the worst at once. 'Better be killed than frightened to death,' thought he. - Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What your glasse telles you, will not be told by Councell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50058]]></link><description><![CDATA[What your glasse telles you, will not be told by Councell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imagination, And every lovely organ of her life, Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving-delicate and full of life Into the eye and prospect of his soul. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is not in things; it is in us ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is not in things; it is in us]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23387</guid></item></channel></rss>