<?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[A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16803]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow;  "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow;  "I hear the first young hard-bell ring,   'Tis time for me to go!    Northward o'er the icy rocks,     Northward o'er the sea,      My daughter comes with sunny locks:       This land's too warm for me!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor With a hairy old crown on 'er 'ead?  She 'as ships ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54479]]></link><description><![CDATA['Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor With a hairy old crown on 'er 'ead?  She 'as ships on the foam--she 'as millions at 'ome,   An' she pays us poor beggars in red.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55214]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have-for their usefulness. -Thomas Merton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You might only go on the field five or six times a game, ... But you're dealing with a lot, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39724]]></link><description><![CDATA[You might only go on the field five or six times a game, ... But you're dealing with a lot, your heart is racing. The more times you go out in front of a crowd, the more relaxed you're going to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47739]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities multiply as they are seized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities multiply as they are seized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But she is vanish'd to her shady home Under the deep, inscrutable; and there  Weeps in a midnight made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18591]]></link><description><![CDATA[But she is vanish'd to her shady home Under the deep, inscrutable; and there  Weeps in a midnight made of her own hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a mouth of his owne, must not say to another; Blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49345]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a mouth of his owne, must not say to another; Blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28168]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's still interesting times, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38789]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's still interesting times,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5535]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46278]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, Freedom! yet thy banner, torn, but flying, Streams like the thunder-storm against the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58208]]></link><description><![CDATA[For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52502]]></link><description><![CDATA[To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1150]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14137]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784 Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all they would forget. She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft. She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts. They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tester I 'll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, Base Phrygian Turk! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tester I 'll have in pouch, when thou shalt lack, Base Phrygian Turk! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My question is whether we need the legislation because these arrests have taken place under the existing laws and it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29076]]></link><description><![CDATA[My question is whether we need the legislation because these arrests have taken place under the existing laws and it appears that the current laws are working efficiently,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are punished by our sins, not for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64731]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are punished by our sins, not for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's pretty wide open. Everybody had better bring their best game every night. If you don't, there's going to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's pretty wide open. Everybody had better bring their best game every night. If you don't, there's going to be some upsets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thomas a Kempis speaks for all the ages when he represents Jesus as saying to him, "A wise lover regards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thomas a Kempis speaks for all the ages when he represents Jesus as saying to him, "A wise lover regards not so much the gift of him who loves, as the love of him who gives. He esteems affection rather than valuables, and sets all gifts below the Beloved. A noble-minded lover rests not in the gift, but in Me above every gift." The sustaining power of the Beloved Presence has through the ages made the sickbed sweet and the graveside triumphant; transformed broken hearts and relations; brought glory to drudgery, poverty and old age; and turned the martyr's stake or noose into a place of coronation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I die,--but first I have possess'd, And come what may, I have been bless'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I die,--but first I have possess'd, And come what may, I have been bless'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The storm passed by my shop, and I had to escape from the shower of stones, tear gas and rubber ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The storm passed by my shop, and I had to escape from the shower of stones, tear gas and rubber bullets to save my life,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64311]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21782]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.  [Ger., Ein edler ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44575]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.  [Ger., Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an,   Und weiss sie fest zu halten, wie ihr thut.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are praying for them and their family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40063]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are praying for them and their family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may conquer with a sword but you are conquered by a kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23849]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may conquer with a sword but you are conquered by a kiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How is your health? I feel pretty good, and I'm very anxious to get the season going. I think we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57728]]></link><description><![CDATA[How is your health? I feel pretty good, and I'm very anxious to get the season going. I think we have a chance to have a good football team. I don't have any health problems. I don't know how any of the stuff gets started.... My health is very good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree.  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59684]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree.  . . . .   Poems are made by fools like me,    But only God can make a tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59780]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am never merry when I hear sweet music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55615]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am never merry when I hear sweet music. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55615</guid></item></channel></rss>