<?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 have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23708]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch, Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth,  Between two blades, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between two hawks, which flies the higher pitch, Between two dogs, which hath the deeper mouth,  Between two blades, which bears the better temper,   Between two horses, which doth bear him best,    Between two girls, which hath the merriest eye,     I have perhaps some shallow spirit of judgment;      But in these nice sharp quillets of the law,       Good faith, I am no wiser than a daw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It did a great deal of good, physically and mentally for me. I felt fresh out there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37347]]></link><description><![CDATA[It did a great deal of good, physically and mentally for me. I felt fresh out there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7662]]></link><description><![CDATA[In arriving at a decision in a question of doubt, the apostles in the Acts were guided solely by their sense of the Spirit behind the action, not by any speculations as to consequences which might ensue. And so they found the truth. Gradually the results of the action manifested themselves, and, seeing them, they perceived what they had really done, and learnt the meaning of the truth revealed in the action. But if, from fear of the consequences, they had checked or forbidden the action, they would have lost this revelation. They would have missed the way to truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44200]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to discover a deficiency in individuals, in states, and in Providence, than to see their real import and value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not good enough to rely on playing good offense or good defense. We need all three phases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30515]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not good enough to rely on playing good offense or good defense. We need all three phases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that Gods bids us do good for evil: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60651]]></link><description><![CDATA[But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that Gods bids us do good for evil:  And thus I clothe my naked villainy   With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ,    And seems a saint, when most I play the devil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66425]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they had acted fast there was a chance to win our hearts and minds, but they are losing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36727]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they had acted fast there was a chance to win our hearts and minds, but they are losing that chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He loves basketball, and he loves the Heat. So it was a beautiful, beautiful thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29220]]></link><description><![CDATA[He loves basketball, and he loves the Heat. So it was a beautiful, beautiful thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53442]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53361]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's all happening too fast. I've got to put the brakes on or I'll smack into something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2206]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think that's necessarily true. I feel the same way about exotic dancers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29206]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think that's necessarily true. I feel the same way about exotic dancers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burnt child dreads the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burnt child dreads the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47506]]></link><description><![CDATA[This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clever men are good, but they are not the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clever men are good, but they are not the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romance is the poetry of literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romance is the poetry of literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26745]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it so it can be devoured by worms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25207]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50713]]></link><description><![CDATA[By looking at squinting people you learn to squint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12653]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I;  No harp like my own could so cheerily play,   And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941   Formal prayer is a practical device, not a spiritual necessity. It makes direct suggestions to our souls: it reminds us of realities which we always tend to forget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no grief like the grief that does not speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18363]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain,  Of his unrivall'd pencil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a flower But shows some touch, in freckle, streak or stain,  Of his unrivall'd pencil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we can have as a matter of course, is not valued; what is denied we eagerly covet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50806]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we can have as a matter of course, is not valued; what is denied we eagerly covet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60949]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is a missionary religion, converting, advancing, aggressive, encompassing the world; a non-missionary church is in the bands of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This group really shares the ball on offense and plays well together on defense. It's a wonderful group of kids ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35275]]></link><description><![CDATA[This group really shares the ball on offense and plays well together on defense. It's a wonderful group of kids with great character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walls have tongues, and hedges ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a craft not an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a craft not an art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth. [Ger., Das erste und letzte, was vom Genie gefordert wird, ist Wahreits-Liebe.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cholesterol in and of itself isn't harmful; it's an integral part of the normal function of our body, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cholesterol in and of itself isn't harmful; it's an integral part of the normal function of our body,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51453]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good wife makes a good husband ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61853]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good wife makes a good husband]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32015]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had more opportunities. Maybe it could have been like 63-55. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30589]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had more opportunities. Maybe it could have been like 63-55.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I look at life as a gift of God. Now that he wants it back I have no right to complain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11341</guid></item></channel></rss>