<?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[In these troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13922]]></link><description><![CDATA[In these troublesome days when the great Mother Empire stands splendidly isolated in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58831]]></link><description><![CDATA[All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled "the bisexual defector." Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie  A little nearer Spenser, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie  A little nearer Spenser, to make room   For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49344]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is a useless mulling over of things we cannot change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is when you have every justification to kill someone, and then you don't]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2400]]></link><description><![CDATA[I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live each day the fullest you can, not guaranteeing there'll be a tomorrow, not dwelling endlessly on yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live each day the fullest you can, not guaranteeing there'll be a tomorrow, not dwelling endlessly on yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45800]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twere sweet to sink in death for Truth and Freedom! Yes, who would hesitate, for who could bear  The living degradation we may know   If we do dread death for a sacred cause?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,  Without one fool or flatterer at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61371]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,  Without one fool or flatterer at your board,   Without one hour of sickness or disgust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Value is what people are willing to pay for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Value is what people are willing to pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15578]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to be careful in this era of radical feminism, not to emphasize an equality of the sexes that leads women to imitate men to prove their equality. To be equal does not mean you have to be the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11583]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majorities because they are supported by the approval of their neighbors. It’s not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're looking at new places in that part of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31677]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're looking at new places in that part of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49010]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26781]]></link><description><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger assists hands however weak. [Lat., Quamlibet infirmas adjuvat ira manus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50005]]></link><description><![CDATA[To go upon the Franciscans Hackney (i.e. on foot).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2156]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One party is aggrieved and is seeking redress. I hope he will accept whatever result is obtained from the outcome ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28283]]></link><description><![CDATA[One party is aggrieved and is seeking redress. I hope he will accept whatever result is obtained from the outcome of the investigation and he has agreed to that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7383]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age considers; youth ventures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age considers; youth ventures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46505]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51290]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I happen to think it's safer having the people out of the token booths than in the token booths. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I happen to think it's safer having the people out of the token booths than in the token booths. When they're circulating, they're much more, you know, 'eyes and ears' than when they're stuck in a booth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without dreams, there can be no courage. And without courage, there can be no action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today we live a sad moment, all the Muslims of France, because he who touches a human life touches the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today we live a sad moment, all the Muslims of France, because he who touches a human life touches the life of humanity as a whole,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43770]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our youth we can have but to-day; We may always find time to grow old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Work is love made visible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Work is love made visible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are hoping this is real wake-up call so people can start getting ready for the colder weather. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37324]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are hoping this is real wake-up call so people can start getting ready for the colder weather.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English. [Fr., Quoique leurs chapeaux sont bien laids, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13902]]></link><description><![CDATA[In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English. [Fr., Quoique leurs chapeaux sont bien laids,  Goddam! j'aime les anglais.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a hand of cards. You have to play the hand you're dealt, you can't win by folding, and sometimes you must take chances in order to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breaking a glass in the Northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breaking a glass in the Northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In deciding which passages he will accept, [the "rational skeptic"] proceeds on the a priori assumption that miracles can't happen. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8272]]></link><description><![CDATA[In deciding which passages he will accept, [the "rational skeptic"] proceeds on the a priori assumption that miracles can't happen. So he automatically writes off any Biblical account of a wondrous happening which suggests that there is an order of reality transcending the observable regularities of nature and occasionally breaking in upon them. Nor is rational skepticism content with jettisoning the Bible's miracle stories. It also dismisses other passages on the grounds that they reflect the ignorance and prejudice of a particular age, or the propaganda interests of the Church at a particular stage of its development. Its basic rule of Biblical interpretation is: "When in doubt, throw it out." And the highest scores in the game of radical reductionism are awarded to pedagogues who find the most novel and far-fetched reasons for doubting that any part of the Bible really means what it says.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is a steep ascent to eternal glory: many are lying dead by the way, slain with security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is a progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined personalgoals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is a progressive realization of worthwhile, predetermined personalgoals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No life Can be pure in its purpose or strong in its strife  And all life not be purer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20867]]></link><description><![CDATA[No life Can be pure in its purpose or strong in its strife  And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit, The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell;  My mistress ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The capon burns, the pig falls from the spit, The clock hath strucken twelve upon the bell;  My mistress made it one upon my cheek:   She is so hot because the meat is cold;    The meat is cold because you come not home;     You come not home because you have no stomach;      You have no stomach, having broke your fast;       But we, that know what 'tis to fast and pray,        Are penitent for your default to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will not be a new target for the eradication of polio. Every country in the world could stop polio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30810]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will not be a new target for the eradication of polio. Every country in the world could stop polio by the end of 2005 save Nigeria. Basically the world, at the start of 2006, will look at who is late, and work to make that process move faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30810</guid></item></channel></rss>