<?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[I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56522]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire--why, it appeareth nothing to me but a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks,  Turn all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it stamp wrinkles in her brow of youth, With cadent tears fret channels in her cheeks,  Turn all her mother's pains and benefits   To laughter and contempt, that she may feel    How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is     To have a thankless child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to receive than to do an injury. [Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20913]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to receive than to do an injury. [Lat., Accipere quam facere injuiam praestat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand for a technologically advanced, de-skilled, low-paid, non-unionized female workforce and paved the way for making part-time work the norm for married women now. A generation later, it was the daughters of wartime women workers who completed their mothers' campaign for equal pay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances alter cases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances alter cases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are making changes that will increase the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are making changes that will increase the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genuine outrage is not just a permissible reaction to the hard-pressed Christian; God himself feels it, and so should the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7014]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genuine outrage is not just a permissible reaction to the hard-pressed Christian; God himself feels it, and so should the Christian in the presence of pain, cruelty, violence, and injustice. God, who is the Father of Jesus Christ, is neither impersonal nor beyond good and evil. By the absolute immutability of His character, He is implacably opposed to evil and outraged by it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49416]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's long a giving, knowes not how to give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meek and lowly, pure and holy, Chief among the "blessed three." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meek and lowly, pure and holy, Chief among the "blessed three."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47202]]></link><description><![CDATA[I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One good man, one man who does not put on his religion once a week with his Sunday coat, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6417]]></link><description><![CDATA[One good man, one man who does not put on his religion once a week with his Sunday coat, but wears it for his working dress, and lets the thought of God grow into him, and through and through him, till everything he says and does becomes religious, that man is worth a thousand sermons -- he is a living Gospel -- he comes in the spirit and power of Elias -- he is the image of God. And men see his good works, and admire them in spite of themselves, and see that they are God-like, and that God's grace is no dream, but that the Holy Spirit is still among men, and that all nobleness and manliness is His gift, His stamp, His picture: and so they get a glimpse of God again in His saints and heroes, and glorify their Father who is in heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Moliere] pleases every one but can not please himself. [Fr., Il plait a tout le monde et ne saurait ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54723]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Moliere] pleases every one but can not please himself. [Fr., Il plait a tout le monde et ne saurait se plaire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65834]]></link><description><![CDATA[... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn-tree: A spruce little fellow as ever could be;  His bill was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4285]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slender young Blackbird built in a thorn-tree: A spruce little fellow as ever could be;  His bill was so yellow, his feathers so black,   So long was his tail, and so glossy his back,    That good Mrs. B., who sat hatching her eggs,     And only just left them to stretch her poor legs,      And pick for a minute the worm she preferred,       Thought there never was seen such a beautiful bird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13024]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render  The deeds of mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27351]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render  The deeds of mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot. (on his decision not to vote) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot. (on his decision not to vote)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems that an essential condition for crises is to be found in the existence of a highly developed system ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47416]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems that an essential condition for crises is to be found in the existence of a highly developed system of communications and the spreading of a homogenous mentality over vast areas.But when the hour and the right material are at hand, the contagion spreads with the speed of electricity over hundreds of miles, and affects the most diverse populations, which hardly know each other. The message flies through the air and they all suddenly agree on that one issue, if only a sulky admission that "there's got to be a change.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54251]]></link><description><![CDATA[It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63020]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Israeli factor was suspiciously present in all the events witnessed by the region, and the developments proved that Israel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29897]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Israeli factor was suspiciously present in all the events witnessed by the region, and the developments proved that Israel was the most prominent and the major benefactor from these events,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habit does not make the monk. [Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habit does not make the monk. [Lat., Cucullus (or Cuculla) non facit monachum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53445]]></link><description><![CDATA[All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wages of sin are sables. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56415]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wages of sin are sables.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And a breastplate made of daisies, Closely fitting, leaf on leaf,  Periwinkles interlaced   Drawn for belt about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10980]]></link><description><![CDATA[And a breastplate made of daisies, Closely fitting, leaf on leaf,  Periwinkles interlaced   Drawn for belt about the waist;    While the brown bees, humming praises,     Shot their arrows round the chief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances beyond my individual control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances beyond my individual control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26056]]></link><description><![CDATA[What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good husband makes a good wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27081]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good husband makes a good wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more there are riots, the more repressive action will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank God, ... I was more than 99 percent certain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank God, ... I was more than 99 percent certain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was not made of common calf, Nor ever meant for country loon;  If with an axe I seem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was not made of common calf, Nor ever meant for country loon;  If with an axe I seem cut out,   The workman was no cobbling clown;    A good jack boot with double sole he made,     To roam the woods, or through the rivers wade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew coming in last year we had to guard one but he's got six or seven now that aren't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33765]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew coming in last year we had to guard one but he's got six or seven now that aren't shy of shooting. Seemed like they were raining in from everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those guys put you in a situation to win every game. That's why they are in the top four. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those guys put you in a situation to win every game. That's why they are in the top four.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the work will be done by the Sierra Vista Rotary West Club. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32386]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the work will be done by the Sierra Vista Rotary West Club.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not let loyalty and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They ought to just say what it is -- it's a fundraiser. They've gotten very good at fundraising on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40910]]></link><description><![CDATA[They ought to just say what it is -- it's a fundraiser. They've gotten very good at fundraising on the backs of motorists. Now it's more fees on parking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  In the era of faith there is room for repentance, since each person can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  In the era of faith there is room for repentance, since each person can decide freely for Christ; in the era of sight, when the reign of Christ is manifest, only judgment is left for the undecided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!"  Vain hopes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14970]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lean on Faith; and some less wise have cried, "Behold the butterfly, the see that's cast!"  Vain hopes that fall like flowers before the blast!   What man can look on Death unterrified?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14970</guid></item></channel></rss>