<?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[Winged mimic of the woods! thou motley fool! Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe?  Thine ever-ready notes of ridicule ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winged mimic of the woods! thou motley fool! Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe?  Thine ever-ready notes of ridicule   Pursue thy fellows still with jest and jibe:    Wit, sophist, songster, Yorick of thy tribe;     Thou sportive satirist of Nature's school;      To thee the palm of scoffing we ascribe,       Arch-mocker and mad abbot of misrule!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897 To die of love, O martyrdom most blest!   For this I long, this is my heart's desire; My exile ends; I soon will be at rest.   Ye Cherubim, lend, lend to me your lyre! O dart of Seraphim, O flame of love,   Consume me wholly; hear my ardent cry! Jesu, make real my dream! Come Holy Dove!   Of love I die!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip;  Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip;  Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton spirits look out   At every joint and motive of her body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17908]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53869]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52375]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66138]]></link><description><![CDATA[A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47092]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever we learn on the track, we put into the cars. Everything is evolutionary. We work hard to have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever we learn on the track, we put into the cars. Everything is evolutionary. We work hard to have the pieces come together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has given us confidence. Next year is going to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31057]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has given us confidence. Next year is going to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20242]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair,  While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sunbeams dropped Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche,  Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dim,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sunbeams dropped Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche,  Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dim,   As if the very Day paused and grew Eve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12758]]></link><description><![CDATA[When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visualize, 'prayerize', 'actionize', and your wishes will come true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is either plagiarism or revolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is either plagiarism or revolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye,  To give repentance to her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56128]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye,  To give repentance to her lover,   And wring his bosom, is--to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm worried that a number of these deals will not get done now. A lot of people get caught in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm worried that a number of these deals will not get done now. A lot of people get caught in the changing markets when they only see the upside of things going in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is master of himself will soon be master of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50987]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  If ever we intend to take one step towards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  If ever we intend to take one step towards any agreement or unity, it must be by fixing this principle in the minds of all men -- that it is of no advantage to any man whatever church or way in Christian religion he be of, unless he personally believe the promises, and live in obedience unto all the precepts of Christ; and that for him who doth so, it is a trampling of the whole gospel under foot to say that his salvation could be endangered by his not being of this or that church or way, especially considering how much of the world hath inmixed itself into all the known ways that are in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45275]]></link><description><![CDATA[All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At no time was I involved with any negotiations or lobbying of the United Nations with regard to the oil-for-food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40217]]></link><description><![CDATA[At no time was I involved with any negotiations or lobbying of the United Nations with regard to the oil-for-food program inspection contract. I and others have stated this fact repeatedly. I am not aware of anyone who states otherwise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27074]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5901]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little curly-headed, good-for-nothing, And mischief-making monkey from his birth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16966]]></link><description><![CDATA[But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10216]]></link><description><![CDATA[My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49051]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise,  And interpret your device,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,-- Can your lurking thought surprise,  And interpret your device,   . . . .    All things wait for and divine him,--     How shall I dare to malign him?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we are saved, we are at home in the universe; and, in principle and in the main, feeble and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6534]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we are saved, we are at home in the universe; and, in principle and in the main, feeble and timid creatures as we are, there is nothing anywhere within the world or without it that can make us afraid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not true. We aren't going to have big, white blocks downtown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41787]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not true. We aren't going to have big, white blocks downtown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear,  It is not night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 Sun of my soul, Thou Savior dear,  It is not night if Thou be near; O may no earth-born cloud arise  To hide Thee from thy servant's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now good digestion wait on appetite, And health on both!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much cooking is based on the season. We serve spring foods during that time of year, all served together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much cooking is based on the season. We serve spring foods during that time of year, all served together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[F]ew things loves better Than to abhor himself-- . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15]]></link><description><![CDATA[[F]ew things loves better Than to abhor himself-- . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52468]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it. [Ger., Wer dem Publicum dient, ist ein armes Thier;  Er qualt sich ab, niemand bedankt sich dafur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a surprise to me, and not because I'm not proud of the work, ... But I've been out here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a surprise to me, and not because I'm not proud of the work, ... But I've been out here 61/2 years, so it feels foreign. But then again, if it helps bring attention to the film, I think it's a special little film and I want people to get to know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mask of gold hides all deformities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9476]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mask of gold hides all deformities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9476</guid></item></channel></rss>