<?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[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,   And make use of your wings while you may.    . . . .     But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite,      They at last found it dangerous play;       Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth,        Only dazzle to lead us astray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make good use of your time, it flies fast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make good use of your time, it flies fast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43089]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bread is the staff of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bread is the staff of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42861]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought not to forget that the whole Church, quite as much as any part of it, exists for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7087]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought not to forget that the whole Church, quite as much as any part of it, exists for the sole reason of finally becoming superfluous. Of heaven St. John the Divine said, "I saw no temple therein.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.  Wha does the utmost that he can  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62002]]></link><description><![CDATA[And let us mind, faint heart ne'er wan A lady fair.  Wha does the utmost that he can   Will whyles do mair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56662]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our customers have told us that they want access to high-speed data services. Through expanded deployment strategies and highly successful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our customers have told us that they want access to high-speed data services. Through expanded deployment strategies and highly successful self-installs, we believe that our 2001 projection is very achievable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57935]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a three-fold cord is not quickly broken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way a woman can ever reform her husband is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39312]]></link><description><![CDATA[So when Andy called, I asked him if he would mind waiting,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was difficult to exclude him but we don't want to see another breakdown of our main bowler. His fitness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34857]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was difficult to exclude him but we don't want to see another breakdown of our main bowler. His fitness level is still not up to the mark for taking the workload in the longer-version game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59114]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can't buy real friendship—friendship must be earned. Money can't buy a clear conscience—square dealing is the price tag. Money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can't buy real friendship—friendship must be earned. Money can't buy a clear conscience—square dealing is the price tag. Money can't buy the glow of good health—right living is the secret. Money can't buy happiness—happiness is a mental condition and one may be as happy in a cottage as in a mansion. Money can't buy sunsets, songs of wild birds and the music of the wind in the trees—these are as free as the air we breath. Money can't buy inward peace—peace is the result of a constructive philosophy in life. Money can't buy a good character—good character is achieved through decent habits of private living and wholesome dealings in our open contacts with our fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is all very natural and organic and in tune with mysterious cycles of the cosmos, which believes that there’s nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fiber and, in some cases, backbone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a system that is broken, ... Men, women and children are getting hurt with that current law, with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31194]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a system that is broken, ... Men, women and children are getting hurt with that current law, with revolving door marriages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention and a general fond regard to God, which I may call an actual presence of God -- or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with God, which often causes in me joys and raptures inwardly, and sometimes also outwardly, so great, that I am forced to use means to moderate them, and to prevent their appearance to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51626]]></link><description><![CDATA[No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66096]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47138]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things are very dry right now - extremely dry. So if anyone does any ditch or field burning, they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things are very dry right now - extremely dry. So if anyone does any ditch or field burning, they have to know that it may move faster than they anticipate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts Yet these are wealth enough for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61443]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts Yet these are wealth enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lo. sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow,  White petals from the flowers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lo. sifted through the winds that blow, Down comes the soft and silent snow,  White petals from the flowers that grow   In the cold atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56107]]></link><description><![CDATA[I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated To closeness and the bettering of my mind. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will not allow violence and we will not allow terrorists to derail this process here in Iraq, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29774]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will not allow violence and we will not allow terrorists to derail this process here in Iraq,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nearest the throne itself must be The footstool of humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46926]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3105]]></link><description><![CDATA["If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an increase, but it's not a huge increase. It's still in line with other (area) marinas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31710]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an increase, but it's not a huge increase. It's still in line with other (area) marinas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names,  Telling their strange and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26700]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in requital ope his leathern scrip, And show me simples of a thousand names,  Telling their strange and vigorous faculties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3589]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26600]]></link><description><![CDATA[All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell,  Or kiss the place to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell,  Or kiss the place to make it well/   My mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,  Wherein the graver had a strife ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55324]]></link><description><![CDATA[This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,  Wherein the graver had a strife   With Nature, to outdo the life:    Oh, could he but have drawn his wit     As well in brass, as he has hit      His face, the print would then surpass       All that was ever writ in brass;        But since he cannot, reader, look         Not on his picture, but his book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longest Day hath an Eueninge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longest Day hath an Eueninge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65960]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65960</guid></item></channel></rss>