<?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[Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene.  Stilled is the hum that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Twilight's soft dews steal o'er the village-green, With magic tints to harmonize the scene.  Stilled is the hum that through the hamlet broke   When round the ruins of their ancient oak    The peasants flocked to hear the minstrel play,     And games and carols closed the busy day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;   And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;  Willing to wound, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer;  Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,   Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike;    Alike reserv'd to blame, or to commend,     A tim'rous foe, and a suspicious friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;  It is the hour when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14250]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard;  It is the hour when lovers' vows   Seem sweet in every whispered word;    And gentle winds, and waters near,     Make music to the lonely ear.      Each flower the dews have lightly wet,       And in the sky the stars are met,        And on the wave is deeper blue,         And on the leaf a browner hue,          And in the heaven that clear obscure,           So softly dark, and darkly pure.            Which follows the decline of day,             As twilight melts beneath the moon away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berowne they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,  I never spent an hour's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Berowne they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth,  I never spent an hour's talk withal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18570]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which we go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1091]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every little thing counts in a crisis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every little thing counts in a crisis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58885]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26122]]></link><description><![CDATA[As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We discussed about some of the issues that were still causing some controversy inside the UN membership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28927]]></link><description><![CDATA[We discussed about some of the issues that were still causing some controversy inside the UN membership.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57171]]></link><description><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only play two games a week, so if we have to add a third game it isn't too bad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32478]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only play two games a week, so if we have to add a third game it isn't too bad. We just haven't been getting the practice time, but the guys are trying to stay sharp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13047]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sick LionA lion, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force, resolved to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sick LionA lion, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force, resolved to do so by artifice. He returned to his den, and lying down there, pretended to be sick, taking care that his sickness should be publicly known. The beasts expressed their sorrow, and came one by one to his den, where the Lion devoured them. After many of the beasts had thus disappeared, the Fox discovered the trick and presenting himself to the Lion, stood on the outside of the cave, at a respectful distance, and asked him how he was. I am very middling, replied the Lion, but why do you stand without? Pray enter within to talk with me. No, thank you, said the Fox. I notice that there are many prints of feet entering your cave, but I see no trace of any returning. He is wise who is warned by the misfortunes of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36180]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this new technology, we are able to detect openings in the forest canopy down to just one or two individual trees. People have been monitoring large-scale deforestation in the Amazon with satellites for more than two decades, but selective logging has been mostly invisible until now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good nature without prudence, is foolishness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good nature without prudence, is foolishness]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, atthe huge waves of the seas, at the long course ofrivers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21845]]></link><description><![CDATA[People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, atthe huge waves of the seas, at the long course ofrivers, at the vast compass of the oceans, at the circular motion of thestars, and they pass themselves without even wondering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not science fiction. The fact is that the world will exist in 100 years, 300 years and one thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32981]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not science fiction. The fact is that the world will exist in 100 years, 300 years and one thousand years from now...This makes good sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has to be able to provide some leadership in his own country on this issue, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40889]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has to be able to provide some leadership in his own country on this issue,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51904]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live, the more faith I have in Providence, and the less faith in my interpretation of Providence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65605]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was an incredible challenge, ... Though the lack of development was one of the greatest assets for Lost - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37938]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was an incredible challenge, ... Though the lack of development was one of the greatest assets for Lost - we didn't have time to second-guess what we were doing and sanitise it into a more middle-ground story. When it aired it ended up getting three times the audience they expected. It was mind-numbing - I just couldn't believe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13581]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. -Galileo.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The EU executive will] at technical...level find out what the truth is in these stories, ... In that sense, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35209]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The EU executive will] at technical...level find out what the truth is in these stories, ... In that sense, we will check the accuracy of those reports..then further define our stance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 Concluding a short series on the Bible:   The popular craving [for an English Bible] could not be stifled, and the sixteenth century saw the pioneering works of Tyndale and Coverdale; then, two years after Coverdale, the real "authorized version" appeared in 1537, when a mysterious translator called "Thomas Matthew" had his works not only dedicated to but licensed by Henry VIII. In the long run, what put the Bible into the hands of the common people was the influence exerted on public opinion and authority by the reformation of the church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. - Talking to Myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43526]]></link><description><![CDATA[To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. - Talking to Myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies,  To make the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8905]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies,  To make the shifting clouds be what you please,   Or let the easily persuaded eyes    Own each quaint likeness issuing from the mould     Of a friend's fancy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency of humanity is towards the forbidden.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jazz is not dead - it just smells funny]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darker than darkest pansies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darker than darkest pansies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He probably has some of the best putting strokes I have ever seen. He just really seems to be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38031]]></link><description><![CDATA[He probably has some of the best putting strokes I have ever seen. He just really seems to be able to handle every adverse situation well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods, they have never forgotten this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5349]]></link><description><![CDATA[In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods, they have never forgotten this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I come like Water, and like Wind I go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27792]]></link><description><![CDATA[I come like Water, and like Wind I go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866  We are born knowing nothing and with much striving we learn but a little; yet all the while we are bound by laws that hearken to no plea of ignorance, and measure out their rewards and punishments with calm indifference. In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[One of Ms. Miller's lawyers, Floyd Abrams, wrote a letter to Mr. Libby's lawyer on Thursday in what he said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34946]]></link><description><![CDATA[[One of Ms. Miller's lawyers, Floyd Abrams, wrote a letter to Mr. Libby's lawyer on Thursday in what he said was an effort] to set the record straight. ... coerced and had been required as a condition for Mr. Libby's continued employment at the White House.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27721]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Major streets are littered with bodies of people killed today, most of them northerners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Major streets are littered with bodies of people killed today, most of them northerners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51649]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must endure, and not cry out against that which cannot be avoided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11401]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of all men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59093</guid></item></channel></rss>