<?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["Thou wert not, Solomon! in all thy glory Array'd," the lilies cry, "in robes like ours;  How vain your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25095]]></link><description><![CDATA["Thou wert not, Solomon! in all thy glory Array'd," the lilies cry, "in robes like ours;  How vain your grandeur! Ah, how transitory   Are human flowers!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of the Macmillan government, there was a change in the whole tone of politics, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39003]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of the Macmillan government, there was a change in the whole tone of politics,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. -King Henry V. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55964]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down,  As Jove, descending from his tow'r ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56709]]></link><description><![CDATA[As I saw fair Chloris walk alone, The feather'd snow came softly down,  As Jove, descending from his tow'r   To court her in a silver show'r.    The wanton snow flew to her breast,     As little birds into their nest;      But o'ercome with whiteness there,       For grief dissolv'd into a tear.        Thence falling on her garment hem,         To deck her, froze into a gem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62995]]></link><description><![CDATA[A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63808]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small town is a place where there's no place to go where you shouldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49517]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5593]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First pledge our Queen this solemn night, Then drink to England, every guest;  That man's the best Cosmopolite  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59419]]></link><description><![CDATA[First pledge our Queen this solemn night, Then drink to England, every guest;  That man's the best Cosmopolite   Who knows his native country best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42039]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions,  Setting endeavor in continual motion;   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore doth heaven divide The state of man in divers functions,  Setting endeavor in continual motion;   To which is fixed as an aim or butt    Obedience; for so work the honeybees,     Creatures that by a rule in nature teach      The act of order to a peopled kingdom.       They have a king, and officers of sorts,        Where some like magistrates correct at home,         Others like merchants venture trade abroad,          Others like soldiers armed in their stings           Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,            Which pillage they with merry march bring home             To the tent-royal of their emperor,              Who, busied in his majesties, surveys               The singing masons building roofs of gold,                The civil citizens kneading up the honey,                 The poor mechanic porters crowding in                  Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,                   The sad-eyed justice with his surly hum                    Delivering o'er to executors pale                     The lazy yawning drone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your chances of getting struck by lightning go up if you stand under a tree, shake your fist at the sky, and say "Storms suck!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men will sooner surrender their rights than their customs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tried to get me - I got them first!(suicide by drinking Lysol). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15222]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tried to get me - I got them first!(suicide by drinking Lysol).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65077]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is abscent when the act is justified. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is abscent when the act is justified.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9449]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you care about a person, it’s impossible to be logical about them anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you care about a person, it’s impossible to be logical about them anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[ASHBURN, Va. Aug 27, 2005 ? LaVar Arrington raised his left arm to reveal two small streaks of bright red ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40543]]></link><description><![CDATA[[ASHBURN, Va. Aug 27, 2005 ? LaVar Arrington raised his left arm to reveal two small streaks of bright red blood.] See that right there from Marcus? ... That was my worst wound of the night, and it came from Marcus. We jumped into one another, and Marcus' braces caught in my arm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [true love] is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie,  Which heart to heart, and mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58531]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [true love] is the secret sympathy, The silver link, the silken tie,  Which heart to heart, and mind to mind   In body and in soul can bind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17297]]></link><description><![CDATA[No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,  I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,  I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. We must find each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinkingand believing. As individuals think and believe, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinkingand believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55552]]></link><description><![CDATA[If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you a bromide? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you a bromide?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17401]]></link><description><![CDATA[For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . . and then be cast from the highest slopes of Parnassus to the lower slopes of art's ever-growing dust-heap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practise it, because the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coquetry is the essential characteristic, and the prevalent humor of women; but they do not all practise it, because the coquetry of some is restrained by fear or by reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect confidence, and this is that the two words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16115]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one theory about angling in which I have perfect confidence, and this is that the two words, least appropriate to any statement, about it, are the words "always" and "never."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66911]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future belongs to those who prepare for it today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60615]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3759]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51573]]></link><description><![CDATA[A loss, of which we are ignorant, is no loss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing I really like about Danny is he's very versatile. He can handle it and shoot it. He's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37575]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing I really like about Danny is he's very versatile. He can handle it and shoot it. He's not one-dimensional. A lot of guards can do one or the other. He's able to do both. That's what makes him a scholarship player.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958  We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream,  Up the hill-side; and now ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades Past the near meadows, over the still stream,  Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep   In the next valley-glades:    Was it a vision, or a waking dream?     Fled is that music:--do I wake or sleep?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3714]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberatedfrom the cataract of accepted belief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberatedfrom the cataract of accepted belief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18532</guid></item></channel></rss>