<?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[Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  Many a congregation when it assembles in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637  Many a congregation when it assembles in church must look to the angels like a muddy, puddly shore at low tide; littered with every kind of rubbish and odds and ends --a distressing sort of spectacle. And then the tide of worship comes in, and it's all gone: the dead sea-urchins and jelly-fish, the paper and the empty cans and the nameless bits of rubbish. The cleansing sea flows over the whole lot. So we are released from a narrow, selfish outlook on the universe by a common act of worship. Our little human affairs are reduced to their proper proportion when seen over against the spaceless Majesty and Beauty of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's an interesting character, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39842]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's an interesting character,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there,  Many a monk and many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Jackdaw sat in the Cardinal's chair! Bishop and Abbot and Prior were there,  Many a monk and many a friar,   Many a knight and many a squire,    With a great many more of lesser degree,--     In sooth a goodly company;      And they served the Lord Primate on bended knee.       Never, I ween,        Was a prouder seen,         Read of in books or dreamt of in dreams,          Than the Cardinal Lord Archbishop of Rheims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52288]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But she's got to lead us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37156]]></link><description><![CDATA[But she's got to lead us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come Tuesday morning, everybody's going to be here working. As soon as the insurance company gives us the OK, we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come Tuesday morning, everybody's going to be here working. As soon as the insurance company gives us the OK, we're going to go ahead and rebuild. We should have a slight transition for our customers and our help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few tyrants go down to the infernal regions by a natural death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So, fall asleep love, loved by me....for I know love, I am loved by thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54383]]></link><description><![CDATA[So, fall asleep love, loved by me....for I know love, I am loved by thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reputation is but a synonyme of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13188]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendly swarry, consisting of a boiled leg of mutton with the usual trimmings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Midwest has always been rough, but the East Coast and the Carolinas have been good to us. And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31276]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Midwest has always been rough, but the East Coast and the Carolinas have been good to us. And the West Coast has been really good to us, too. Canada not so much, but that was before the album came out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader has to be practical and a realist, yet must talk the language of the visionary and the idealist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65198]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taking he SAT is like going to the doctor. It scares the willies out of you, but once you get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taking he SAT is like going to the doctor. It scares the willies out of you, but once you get there it's really not that bad, and in the end it's all for the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me be clear about this. I don't have a drug problem. I have a police problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the fire-proofer of emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the fire-proofer of emotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65121]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65121</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[Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as we were done with it, we were beyond it. We've been dying to write this record. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40115]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as we were done with it, we were beyond it. We've been dying to write this record.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43297]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And robes the mountain in its azure hue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ox-eyes awful Juno. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ox-eyes awful Juno.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26239]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This [report] gives the Fed total latitude to do whatever they think is fitting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42256]]></link><description><![CDATA[This [report] gives the Fed total latitude to do whatever they think is fitting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is found when men are free to pursue it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65491]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22650]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the show in Virginia, they laid all the food out and it covered the entire floor. That makes you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30446]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the show in Virginia, they laid all the food out and it covered the entire floor. That makes you proud right there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65162]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a rule, we find what we look for; we achieve what we get ready for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of embarrassing your opponent or messing up a press conference or even rattling your opponent always comes up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of embarrassing your opponent or messing up a press conference or even rattling your opponent always comes up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every tub must stand upon its bottom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every tub must stand upon its bottom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall early (sitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57223]]></link><description><![CDATA[She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall early (sitting at her merry wheel), she sings a defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune . . . and fears no manner of ill because she means none.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Ourrewards will always be in exact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21749]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will receive not what we idly wish for but what we justly earn. Ourrewards will always be in exact proportion to our service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40922]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have an education degree from the University of Minnesota, and I was a teacher for about a minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46489]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22642]]></link><description><![CDATA[My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring to a boilAdd oilThen bombMs Roy is author of the God of Small Things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring to a boilAdd oilThen bombMs Roy is author of the God of Small Things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the most urgent thing you can possibly do is take a complete rest]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5520]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind. [Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never without a shilling in my purse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never without a shilling in my purse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50301</guid></item></channel></rss>