<?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[Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you’ve brought breakfast in bed you’ll have to bring it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4166]]></link><description><![CDATA[O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you’ve brought breakfast in bed you’ll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59345</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[When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36757]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets are sultans, if they had their will: For every author would his brother kill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets are sultans, if they had their will: For every author would his brother kill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television? The word is half Latin and half Greek. No good can come of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55537]]></link><description><![CDATA[The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23734]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no delight in owning anything unshared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56153]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no delight in owning anything unshared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With such a concentration of opportunity, customers and partners, having a second BPIC is a winning strategy. Customers can come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33853]]></link><description><![CDATA[With such a concentration of opportunity, customers and partners, having a second BPIC is a winning strategy. Customers can come and rather than hear about a solution, they can see it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jests that give pains are no jests ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23216]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jests that give pains are no jests]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47259]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far as business and money are concerned, a country gains nothing by a successful war, even though that war involves the acquisition of immense new provinces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19548]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanlon's Razor:"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hanlon's Razor:"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44284]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms,  Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2987]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms,  Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell   The coming of storms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But winter lingering chills the lap of May. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26609]]></link><description><![CDATA[But winter lingering chills the lap of May.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is acceptance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is acceptance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will attempt no historical or theological classification of [George] Macdonald's thought, partly because I have not the learning to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8517]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will attempt no historical or theological classification of [George] Macdonald's thought, partly because I have not the learning to do so, still more because I am no great friend to such pigeon-holing. One very effective way of silencing the voice of conscience is to impound in an Ism the teacher through whom it speaks; the trumpet no longer seriously disturbs our rest when we have murmured '..Thomist', 'Barthian', or 'Existentialist'. And in Macdonald it is, always the voice of conscience that speaks. He addresses the will: the demand for obedience, for "something to be neither more nor less nor other than done" is incessant. Yet in that very voice of conscience every other faculty somehow speaks as well -- intellect and imagination and humour and fancy and all the affections; and no man in modern times was perhaps more aware of the distinction between Law and Gospel, the inevitable failure of mere morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33119]]></link><description><![CDATA[We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64506]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4872]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16752]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to avenge a friend than to mourn for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have been no signs of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36634]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have been no signs of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unexpected disappearance of Mr. Canning from the scene, followed by the transient and embarrassed phantom of Lord Goderich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unexpected disappearance of Mr. Canning from the scene, followed by the transient and embarrassed phantom of Lord Goderich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3156]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I disagree that this is taking rights away from people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39290]]></link><description><![CDATA[I disagree that this is taking rights away from people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4005]]></link><description><![CDATA[When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60248]]></link><description><![CDATA[The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing, thou elder brother e'en to shade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12029]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good. -Vaclav Havel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58823]]></link><description><![CDATA[If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to consider the end in everything. [Fr., En toute chose il faut considerer la fin.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13784]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to consider the end in everything. [Fr., En toute chose il faut considerer la fin.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most basic question is not what is best but who shall decide what is best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague  To beguile many and be beguiled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58909]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a creature That dotes on Cassio, as 'tis the strumpet's plague  To beguile many and be beguiled by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many search for happiness as we look for a hat we wear on our heads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length the Fox is brought to the Furrier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49142]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length the Fox is brought to the Furrier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46826]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just an all-out blitz. We're bringing everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28381]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just an all-out blitz. We're bringing everybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our defense stepped up in the third quarter, and Missy hitting those two shots were just huge. It gave us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our defense stepped up in the third quarter, and Missy hitting those two shots were just huge. It gave us some breathing room and we were able to make some adjustments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11771]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11771</guid></item></channel></rss>