<?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[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23348]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forever is a long, long time and time has a way of changing things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forever is a long, long time and time has a way of changing things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fare thee well! and if for ever, Still for ever, fare thee well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51907]]></link><description><![CDATA[My friends, remember this, that there are no weeds, and no worthless men, there are only bad farmers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that proves not to be possible then I think as a community we're prepared to trust to the good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38770]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that proves not to be possible then I think as a community we're prepared to trust to the good offices of the premier and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51154]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37984]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19349]]></link><description><![CDATA[History would be wonderful thing - if it were only true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44725]]></link><description><![CDATA[When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural right to compel them to obedience]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by the tenderness of the best hearts]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted disease. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a sexually transmitted disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law of inflation: whatever goes up will go up some more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law of inflation: whatever goes up will go up some more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives  Before the other how they ought to act;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53963]]></link><description><![CDATA[For when two Join in the same adventure, one perceives  Before the other how they ought to act;   While one alone, however prompt, resolves    More tardily and with a weaker will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5843]]></link><description><![CDATA[That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56999]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode  (There they alike in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5699]]></link><description><![CDATA[No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode  (There they alike in trembling hope repose),   The bosom of his Father and his God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By nature all people are alike, but by education become different ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13376]]></link><description><![CDATA[By nature all people are alike, but by education become different]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We worked well together. There was a lot of nice passing today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30557]]></link><description><![CDATA[We worked well together. There was a lot of nice passing today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15130]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12696]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26900]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On hob, reclines the corner's guest,    Reading the news to mark again     The bankrupt lists or price of grain.      Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe       He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe,        Yet, winter's leisure to regale,         Hopes better times, and sips his ale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tradition is an explanation for acting without thinking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5250]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides. One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common-sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty awakens the soul to act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty awakens the soul to act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!  There is betwixt that smile we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54508]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors!  There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to,   That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin,    More pangs and fears than wars or women have;     And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,      Never to hope again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's really courageous, really has a lot of heart to get out there and do what she did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39615]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's really courageous, really has a lot of heart to get out there and do what she did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They kept telling me you have to have patience, ... Systems in the Caribbean in October take a long time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40860]]></link><description><![CDATA[They kept telling me you have to have patience, ... Systems in the Caribbean in October take a long time to develop.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be anything if you want to be everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22114]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be anything if you want to be everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail to thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion!  Thou, linnet! in thy green array, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail to thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion!  Thou, linnet! in thy green array,   Presiding spirit here to-day,    Dost lead the revels of the May;     And this is thy dominion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of children to wait on elders, and not the elders on children]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,  Or as the heresies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13272]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,  Or as the heresies that men do leave   Are hated most of those they did deceive,    So thou, my surfeit and my heresy,     Of all be hated, but the most of me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many things which a person can do alone, but being a Christian is not one of them. As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7992]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many things which a person can do alone, but being a Christian is not one of them. As the Christian life is, above all things, a state of union with Christ, and of union of his followers with one another, love of the brethren is inseparable from love of God. Resentment toward any human being cannot exist in the same heart with love to God. The personal relationship to Christ can only be realized when one has "come to himself" as a member of His Body, the Christian fellowship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truly fearless think of themselves as normal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truly fearless think of themselves as normal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The debate in Washington will focus on ideology, ... will be no less important. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The debate in Washington will focus on ideology, ... will be no less important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[mayor of Capitol Hill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36851]]></link><description><![CDATA[mayor of Capitol Hill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3667]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have the feeling that in a balanced life one should die penniless. The trick is dismantling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a good thing he's not still in office. You almost feel sorry for the guy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33408]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a good thing he's not still in office. You almost feel sorry for the guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steal!--to be sure they may; and egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steal!--to be sure they may; and egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children, disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16570]]></link><description><![CDATA[That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, "that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray,  And, darkly circled, gave at noon  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray,  And, darkly circled, gave at noon   A sadder light than waning moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He brings so much energy to the game, people can feed off that. A guy that has been out for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30825]]></link><description><![CDATA[He brings so much energy to the game, people can feed off that. A guy that has been out for so long, that is hungry to get back in there, the adrenaline is contagious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30825</guid></item></channel></rss>