<?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[Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civill Wars of France made a million of Atheists, and 30000 Witches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So may glory from defect arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17539]]></link><description><![CDATA[So may glory from defect arise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are they reducing the number of 'Nutcrackers' because people are either canceling subscriptions or not buying single tickets to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are they reducing the number of 'Nutcrackers' because people are either canceling subscriptions or not buying single tickets to the 'Nutcracker?' Is this evidence of a stronger public reaction against their decision than they are willing to admit?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet, To think how mony consels sweet,  How mony lengthened, sage advices,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, gentle dames! it gars we greet, To think how mony consels sweet,  How mony lengthened, sage advices,   The husband frae the wife despises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This could be our new favorite place to play. I hope it's not long till we come back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30536]]></link><description><![CDATA[This could be our new favorite place to play. I hope it's not long till we come back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of the season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33864]]></link><description><![CDATA[We used to say that Memorial Day started the season. Now, Presidents' Day is considered the start of the season.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49337]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that feares leaves, let him not goe into the wood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17328]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5795]]></link><description><![CDATA[If she seem not chaste to me, What care I how chaste she be?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of prayer. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of prayer. Prayer and devotion are united as soul and body are united, as life and the heart are united. There is no real prayer without devotion, no devotion without prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seven hundred pounds and possibilities is good gifts. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53543]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11971]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first principle of success is desire -- knowing what you want. Desire is the planting of your seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bellowing cow soon forgets her calf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50954]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bellowing cow soon forgets her calf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10879]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53164]]></link><description><![CDATA[An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would make it awfully difficult to do sewer projects in the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32160]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would make it awfully difficult to do sewer projects in the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24423]]></link><description><![CDATA[The task of the leader is to get his people from where they are to where they have not been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31754]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20940]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and he conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30735]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has a coarse texture and a rich, beefy taste only matched by hanger steak,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people, especially officials, don't have the courage to speak up against corruption. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people, especially officials, don't have the courage to speak up against corruption.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour,  And the moon rose over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27452]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stood on the bridge at midnight, As the clocks were striking the hour,  And the moon rose over the city,   Behind the dark church tower.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty is a wordthat is hardly ever spokenDeceit is a wordthat makes hearts brokenLove is a wordspoken many, many timesHate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty is a wordthat is hardly ever spokenDeceit is a wordthat makes hearts brokenLove is a wordspoken many, many timesHate is a wordthat brings out prejudiced crimesTrying is a wordactions taken that are confusingGiving-up is a wordnot or winning but of losingBeginning is a wordthat means a new startForever is a word that doesn't play its partBreeze is a wordtalking about the windFresh is a wordtelling how to begin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2188]]></link><description><![CDATA[I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55444]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38585]]></link><description><![CDATA[At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52243]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex should be friendly. Otherwise stick to mechanical toys; it's more sanitary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every hardship; every joy; every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may prove itself. The great chain of necessity wherewith we are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52927]]></link><description><![CDATA[A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who did leave His Father's throne, To assume thy flesh and bone?  Had He life, or had He none? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who did leave His Father's throne, To assume thy flesh and bone?  Had He life, or had He none?   If he had not liv'd for thee,    Thou hadst died most wretchedly     And two deaths had been thy fee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50912]]></link><description><![CDATA[We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19556]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19556</guid></item></channel></rss>