<?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[She 's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won. -King Henry VI. Part ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55978]]></link><description><![CDATA[She 's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won. -King Henry VI. Part I. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give thy thoughts no tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give thy thoughts no tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6311]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving, but that commonly with an increase of wealth, the desire of wealth increased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never swap horses crossing a stream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never swap horses crossing a stream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21544]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to me that money not be important to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 When night comes, list thy deeds; make plain the way 'Twixt heaven and thee; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 When night comes, list thy deeds; make plain the way 'Twixt heaven and thee; block it not with delays;  But perfect all before thou sleep'st: then say:  There's one sun more strung on my Bead of days. What's good, score up for joy; the bad, well scanned.  Wash off with tears, and get thy Master's hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rather than be less Car'd not to be at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66101]]></link><description><![CDATA[People read books and they find a new world that can change their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51625]]></link><description><![CDATA[No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20722]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never live; we are always in the expectation of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64665]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13224]]></link><description><![CDATA[O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth, The bless'd hour of our dinners!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18204]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62865]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is the perfection of a point of view ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is the perfection of a point of view]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1694]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America—and change soon. We must help that change to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debters are lyers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debters are lyers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're playing every game as if it's the seventh inning. We knew we had to crawl our way back into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32152]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're playing every game as if it's the seventh inning. We knew we had to crawl our way back into this thing. I think we did that today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great question for us now is, Do we believe in that love of God which Christ taught by His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great question for us now is, Do we believe in that love of God which Christ taught by His words, and of which His followers saw in His voluntary death a crowning manifestation? And remember that even belief in the love of God will do us no good unless it awakes answering love in ourselves -- unless it adds to our hatred of the sin which separates us from God and increases our love of other men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53644]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY   Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, He chose to come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6759]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY   Invisible in His own nature [God] became visible in ours. Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Idle youth, a needy Age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49120]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Idle youth, a needy Age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence lessens half-hearted passions, and increases great ones, as the wind puts out candles and yet stirs up the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50089]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the discreet advise, the foole doth his busines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62064]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Popularity is not leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Popularity is not leadership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16471]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This county is in dire need of affordable housing. We have to use every single tool we have to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30903]]></link><description><![CDATA[This county is in dire need of affordable housing. We have to use every single tool we have to put affordable housing anywhere it can be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The divide of race has been America's constant curse. Each new wave of immigrants gives new targets to old prejudices. Prejudice and contempt, cloaked in the pretense of religious or political conviction, are no different. They have nearly destroyed us in the past. They plague us still. They fuel the fanaticism of terror. They torment the lives of millions in fractured nations around the world. These obsessions cripple both those who are hated and, of course, those who hate, robbing both of what they might become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody answered the phone anyway. We had to leave messages. Said, thanks for coming, we appreciate it, stuff like that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody answered the phone anyway. We had to leave messages. Said, thanks for coming, we appreciate it, stuff like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20619]]></link><description><![CDATA[A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23669]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43994]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft, To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Mole and His MotherA mole, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: I am sure than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1522]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Mole and His MotherA mole, a creature blind from birth, once said to his Mother: I am sure than I can see, Mother! In the desire to prove to him his mistake, his Mother placed before him a few grains of frankincense, and asked, What is it?' The young Mole said, It is a pebble. His Mother exclaimed: My son, I am afraid that you are not only blind, but that you have lost your sense of smell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kind-of circled this week, because we had never beaten Arapahoe and never beaten Ranch, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31286]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kind-of circled this week, because we had never beaten Arapahoe and never beaten Ranch,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is world's best launch team. Congratulations for another awesome performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41733]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is world's best launch team. Congratulations for another awesome performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20169]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the working man's house hunger looks in but dares not enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20169</guid></item></channel></rss>