<?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[When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4465]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ill deede cannot bring honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49122]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ill deede cannot bring honour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman is like a timezone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman is like a timezone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  As long as I see any thing to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552  As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were expecting such an escalation, and we will witness more in the next few weeks, ... We will deal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were expecting such an escalation, and we will witness more in the next few weeks, ... We will deal with it and crush it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that this will soon pass not only in the House but also the Senate, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that this will soon pass not only in the House but also the Senate,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish. [Lat., Potuit fortasse minoria  Piscator quam piscis emi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fisherman could perhaps be bought for less than the fish. [Lat., Potuit fortasse minoria  Piscator quam piscis emi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is better than revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is better than revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need,according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment andfinancial ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22420]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Law of Attraction attracts to you everything you need,according to the nature of your thought life. Your environment andfinancial condition are the perfect reflection of your habitual thinking.Thought rules the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The promise of yesterday are the taxes of today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,  Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy,  Kinsman to a grim and comfortless despair,   And at her heels a huge infectious troop    Of pale distemperatures and foes to life?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21825]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49276]]></link><description><![CDATA[God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man was formed for society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man was formed for society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   Thus was the Cross of Christ, in St. Paul's day, the glory of Christians; not as it signified their not being ashamed to own a master that was crucified, but as it signified their glorying in a religion which was nothing else but a doctrine of the Cross that called them to the same suffering spirit, the same sacrifice of themselves, the same renunciation of the world, the same humility and meekness, the same patient bearing of injuries, reproaches and contempts, and the same dying to all the greatness, honours, and happiness of this world, which Christ showed on the Cross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without death and decay, how could life go on? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without death and decay, how could life go on?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19315]]></link><description><![CDATA[What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26870]]></link><description><![CDATA[In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of curing or educating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You wait a moment to settle your nerves Then make your cast with a right hand curve  The fly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16285]]></link><description><![CDATA[You wait a moment to settle your nerves Then make your cast with a right hand curve  The fly settles down and the float looked good   But the trout refused it and there you stood    A dejected fly fisherman.     You looked things over and were not yet beat      Then changed flies again and were ready to repeat       The next try was poor because you rushed the cast        You hold your breath in solemn anticipation         You must be a fly fisherman!          The fly floats gently on its way to the trout           You know it will "take it" without a doubt.            You're all charged up and ready to strike             But the fly floats by because something's not right              You are still a fly fisherman.               You open your fly box and select a new fly                Then lengthen the tippet before the next try                 Change your position to help with the cast                  And hope you have made the right decision at last                   Now you are a doubtful fly fisherman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young people need models, not critics... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young people need models, not critics...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if they're lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them,  Who were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45999]]></link><description><![CDATA[For everything seemed resting on his nod, As they could read in all eyes. Now to them,  Who were accustomed, as a sort of god,   To see the sultan, rich in many a gem,    Like an imperial peacock stalk abroad     (That royal bird, whose tail's a diadem,)      With all the pomp of power, it was a doubt       How power could condescend to do without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that heis at once the lover and the beloved. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22435]]></link><description><![CDATA[There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that heis at once the lover and the beloved. The aspiring soul which he embodiesis the lover in him. And the transcendental Self which he reveals fromwithin is his Beloved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16698]]></link><description><![CDATA[No arsenal or no weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can accept losing, you can't win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11786]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can accept losing, you can't win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226  Be not afraid that thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Francis of Assisi, Friar, Deacon, Founder of the Friars Minor, 1226  Be not afraid that thou art tempted, for the more thou art assailed by temptations, the greater friend and servant of God do I hold thee, and the greater love do I bear thee. Verily, I say to thee, let no man deem himself the perfect friend of God until he have passed through many temptations and tribulations... I am ready to endure patiently all things that my Lord would do with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4180]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the nicest way to search somebody if they have to be searched. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30647]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the nicest way to search somebody if they have to be searched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47379]]></link><description><![CDATA[This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16480]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!" [Lat., Intrantis medici facies tres esse videntur  Aegrotanti; hominis, Daemonis, atque Dei.   Cum primum accessit medicus dixitque salutem,    En Deus aut custos angelus, aeger ait.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11862]]></link><description><![CDATA[For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were one rebound away from winning, for really turning it into a series. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31934]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were one rebound away from winning, for really turning it into a series.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52196]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58174]]></link><description><![CDATA[If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  "The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689  "The clergy," says Canon Rhymes, "are called to give to the laity the benefit of their theological understanding and so help them to account for and understand the faith which is in them." But surely there is no point in trying to account for faith: the moment it is accounted for rationally, it is no longer faith. Those whose hearts are filled with the Christian spirit... are best left to proclaim the Gospel in their own words and, above all, through the example of their own lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19036]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's heart deviseth his way: but the Lord directeth his steps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54211]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, then, that we appear such cowards in reasoning, and are so afraid to stand the test of ridicule?   - Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16198]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fancy with prophetic glance Sees the teeming months advance;  The field, the forest, green and gay;   The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fancy with prophetic glance Sees the teeming months advance;  The field, the forest, green and gay;   The dappled slope, the tedded hay;    Sees the reddening orchard blow,     The Harvest wave, the vintage flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That song, for me, is about drugs and alcohol and loss and love. It's about being proud of who you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57206]]></link><description><![CDATA[That song, for me, is about drugs and alcohol and loss and love. It's about being proud of who you are, being proud of your situation and just being stoked that things are always going to get better or always gonna get worse and that's such a great thing. Every day is a new surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57206</guid></item></channel></rss>