<?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[Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still have the nightmares. I see the same person who tortured me in my dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41274]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still have the nightmares. I see the same person who tortured me in my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25782]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration and familiarity are strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration and familiarity are strangers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a bad day. Horrible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39980]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a bad day. Horrible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue," As some one somewhere sings about the sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56509]]></link><description><![CDATA["Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue," As some one somewhere sings about the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though sympathizing with the revolutionaries' analysis of what was wrong with society and in fact being mistaken for a revolutionary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though sympathizing with the revolutionaries' analysis of what was wrong with society and in fact being mistaken for a revolutionary himself by the political authorities of his day, nevertheless Jesus did not advocate a new political regime to be established by force through revolutionary action. He called for the love of our enemies, not their destruction; ... for readiness to suffer instead of using force; for forgiveness instead of hate and revenge. One might even say [that] Jesus was more revolutionary than the revolutionaries, or revolutionary in a very different way. The revolution he had in mind was a radical change of heart on the part of mankind, involving conversion away from selfishness and toward the willing service of God and of people in general.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â feel very proud because we worked so hard to create it - and proud for France because everything is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30096]]></link><description><![CDATA[ÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â feel very proud because we worked so hard to create it - and proud for France because everything is made here,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet;  Should the big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let firm, well hammer'd soles protect thy feet Through freezing snows, and rains, and soaking sleet;  Should the big last extend the shoe too wide,   Each stone will wrench the unwary step aside;    The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein,     The cracking joint unhinge, or ankle sprain;      And when too short the modish shoes are worn,       You'll judge the seasons by your shooting corn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46878]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simon sustained a low-grade groin injury. He'll have a diagnostic scan to find out the extent of his injury. Simon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simon sustained a low-grade groin injury. He'll have a diagnostic scan to find out the extent of his injury. Simon will undergo treatment and we'll review his situation ahead of Sunday's game in Sydney.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light may come where all looks darkest, Hope hath life, when life seems o'er. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light may come where all looks darkest, Hope hath life, when life seems o'er.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have added a lot. There's some Vegas stuff and hotel stuff and a whole chunk on health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41014]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have added a lot. There's some Vegas stuff and hotel stuff and a whole chunk on health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27941]]></link><description><![CDATA[No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that gives thee a bone, would not have thee die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great season and a great game. It's a shame that someone had to lose this game and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28726]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great season and a great game. It's a shame that someone had to lose this game and it's going to hurt these kids for a while, but a month from now, we'll be celebrating what we did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is more stinking than drinking, but to feel isfor real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is more stinking than drinking, but to feel isfor real.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. - Essays and Soliloquies, 1924.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My last day here in Hampton is October 4, ... I will then take time for a deep breath, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39483]]></link><description><![CDATA[My last day here in Hampton is October 4, ... I will then take time for a deep breath, and then send everything to the cleaners and start again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of a generation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of a generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65533]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14731]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43110]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4450]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think that the flesh is necessarily treacherous, evil, bad. It is cantankerous, and it is independent. The idea of independence is the key. It really is like colonialism. The colonies suddenly decide that they can and should exist with their own personality and should detach from the control of the mother country. At first the colony is perceived as being treacherous. It's a betrayal. Ultimately, it can be seen as the separation of a partner that could be very valuable as an equal rather than as something you dominate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweetest the strain when in the song The singer has been lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweetest the strain when in the song The singer has been lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. [Lat., Cautus enim metuit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58406]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. [Lat., Cautus enim metuit foveam lupus, accipiterque  Suspectos laqueos, et opertum milvius hamum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness? [Lat., Cui flavam religas comam  Simplex munditiis?] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18592]]></link><description><![CDATA[For whom do you bind your hair, plain in your neatness? [Lat., Cui flavam religas comam  Simplex munditiis?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42670]]></link><description><![CDATA[I voted to recall. The things she's done can't be justified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had two major benefactors that really made sure the women and children ... got their wish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33343]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had two major benefactors that really made sure the women and children ... got their wish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding brings control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding brings control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope the public will offer ideas about how we can best present the local history of each region we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41127]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope the public will offer ideas about how we can best present the local history of each region we visit. We also welcome suggestions about artifacts that we might want to exhibit in the new museum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We often despise what is most useful to us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57097]]></link><description><![CDATA[We often despise what is most useful to us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42761]]></link><description><![CDATA[That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15656]]></link><description><![CDATA[What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46926]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how full of briers is this working-day world! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55631]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how full of briers is this working-day world! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kingdom of the LionTHE beasts of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Kingdom of the LionTHE beasts of the field and forest had a Lion as their king. He was neither wrathful, cruel, nor tyrannical, but just and gentle as a king could be. During his reign he made a royal proclamation for a general assembly of all the birds and beasts, and drew up conditions for a universal league, in which the Wolf and the Lamb, the Panther and the Kid, the Tiger and the Stag, the Dog and the Hare, should live together in perfect peace and amity. The Hare said, Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong. And after the Hare said this, he ran for his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,  This many summers in a sea of glory, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48210]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,  This many summers in a sea of glory,   But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride    At length broke under me, and now has left me,     Weary and old with service, to the mercy      Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48210</guid></item></channel></rss>