<?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 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[At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45885]]></link><description><![CDATA[At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again let us dream where the land lies sunny And live, like the bees, on our hearts' old honey,  Away from the world that slaves for money--   Come, journey the way with me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the diligence of his idleness. [Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20328]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the diligence of his idleness. [Lat., Diligenter per vacuitatem suam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. -King Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55835]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would to God thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48362]]></link><description><![CDATA[With every passing hour our solar system comes forty-three thousand miles closer to globular cluster 13 in the constellation Hercules, and still there are some misfits who continue to insist that there is no such thing as progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4671]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63752]]></link><description><![CDATA[There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65772]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't love someone because they're perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they're not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanatics in power and the funnel of a tornado have this in common - the narrow path in which they move is marked by violence and destruction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people totreat you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people totreat you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10323]]></link><description><![CDATA[True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No pain, no gain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51016]]></link><description><![CDATA[No pain, no gain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59473]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53867]]></link><description><![CDATA[My reputation grows with every failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had three chances to win the ballgame, and we blew all three of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32328]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had three chances to win the ballgame, and we blew all three of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60063]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 Continuing a short series on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecile Isherwood, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1906 Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21172]]></link><description><![CDATA[My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state of severance of union with sorrow is known by the name of yoga. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state of severance of union with sorrow is known by the name of yoga.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ripest fruit first falls. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16671]]></link><description><![CDATA[England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.   - Mrs. Lydia Maria Child,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine  Than my heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27422]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine  Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51753]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the law will compel you to do, do of your own free will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda cross-dressed as science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perfect about it yet? What am I going to do next time? How can I do this and have fund doing it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Africa is destined to anarchy. It is turning into 36 Haitis, with 36 Duvaliers, full of Cadillacs, beggars and snarling dogs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very pleased with the way the team played, especially they way they hustled and dove on defense. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42121]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very pleased with the way the team played, especially they way they hustled and dove on defense. You can't ask for anything more. Sometimes the breaks don't go your way. We still have a chance to make the playoffs. We just have to win out from here. It's going to be a good test for the team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw the chair in design magazines. It was also in Child Magazine. The designers really thought about who their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw the chair in design magazines. It was also in Child Magazine. The designers really thought about who their user was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of moving accidents by flood and field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of moving accidents by flood and field.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]   - credited to Sophie Arnould,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 The deaf may hear the Saviour's voice, The fettered tongue its chains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Keble, Priest, Poet, Tractarian, 1866 The deaf may hear the Saviour's voice, The fettered tongue its chains may break; But the deaf heart, the dumb by choice, The laggard soul that will not wake, The guilt that scorns to be forgiven -- These baffle e'en the spells of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.  [Lat., Prisca ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.  [Lat., Prisca juvent alios; ego me nunc denique natum Gratulor.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the Brother of Death daily haunts us with dying mementoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. -George Eliot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By unseen hand uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud  Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8909]]></link><description><![CDATA[By unseen hand uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud  Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad,   And wafted up to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9855]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12222]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop worrying -- nobody gets out of this world alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44228</guid></item></channel></rss>