<?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[Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life becomes child's play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bowl dispels corroding cares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bowl dispels corroding cares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So here hath been dawning Another blue day;  Think, wilt thou let it   Slip useless away?  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11132]]></link><description><![CDATA[So here hath been dawning Another blue day;  Think, wilt thou let it   Slip useless away?    Out of eternity     This new day is born,      Into eternity       At night will return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16022]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14472]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52130]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62373]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: music praises God. Music ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   The Church knew what the Psalmist knew: music praises God. Music is as well, or better, able to praise Him than the building of a church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,  Long may thy hardy sons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25953]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heav'n is sent,  Long may thy hardy sons of rustic toil   Be blest with health, and peace, and sweet content!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18109]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Covetousnesse breaks the bag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Covetousnesse breaks the bag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/249]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was always a lover of soft-winged things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4236]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was always a lover of soft-winged things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoid revolution or expect to get shot. Mother and I will grieve, but we will gladly buy a dinner for the National Guardsman who shot you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A life of honour and of worth Has no eternity on earth,--  'Tis but a name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A life of honour and of worth Has no eternity on earth,--  'Tis but a name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9107]]></link><description><![CDATA[A world community can only exist with world communication, which means something more than extensive software facilities scattered about he globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common idea's and common ideals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To die will be an awfully big adventure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/663]]></link><description><![CDATA[To die will be an awfully big adventure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258  It is only by forgetting yourself that you can draw near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258  It is only by forgetting yourself that you can draw near to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. [Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62459]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man finds he has been wrong at every preceding stage of his career, only to deduce the astonishing conclusion that he is at last entirely right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played a pretty good game. The refs called two penalties at the end and it helped us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42302]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played a pretty good game. The refs called two penalties at the end and it helped us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy comes from using your potential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy comes from using your potential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18492]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange is our situation here upon earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it comes to facing up to serious problems, each candidate will pledge to appoint a committee. And what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9009]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it comes to facing up to serious problems, each candidate will pledge to appoint a committee. And what is a committee? ;A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. But it all sounds great in a campaign speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Buy at a faire, but sell at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Buy at a faire, but sell at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned the value of hard work by working hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22198]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned the value of hard work by working hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Awake, thou wintry earth-- Fling off thy sadness!  Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth   Your ancient gladness!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13139]]></link><description><![CDATA[Awake, thou wintry earth-- Fling off thy sadness!  Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth   Your ancient gladness!    Christ is risen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We condemn the act of violence and we are really concerned with what happened yesterday and we hope that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33550]]></link><description><![CDATA[We condemn the act of violence and we are really concerned with what happened yesterday and we hope that it won't disturb the agenda for next week's meeting of foreign ministers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ocean asks for nothing but thosewho stand by her shoresgradually attune themselves to her rhythmCharles Dickens in David Copperfield.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thursday Jennifer Whitaker will take 80 student nurses to the convention center to do family assessments, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thursday Jennifer Whitaker will take 80 student nurses to the convention center to do family assessments,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you commit a crime, you're guilty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21549]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you commit a crime, you're guilty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58535]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is blynde. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is blynde.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore  Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore  Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer   Curves his white bastions with projected roof    Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.     Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work      So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he       For number or proportion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5949]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by. [No sooner is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8677]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by. [No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devil builds a chapel hard by.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kingdom of the LionTHE beasts of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Kingdom of the LionTHE beasts of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither wrathful, cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle as a king could be. During his reign he made a royal proclamation for a general assembly of all the birds and beasts, and drew up conditions for a universal league, in which the Wolf and the Lamb, the Panther and the Kid, the Tiger and the Stag, the Dog and the Hare, should live together in perfect peace and amity. The Hare said, Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong. And after the Hare said this, he ran for his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a Hollywood Trainwreck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19589]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a Hollywood Trainwreck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39500</guid></item></channel></rss>