<?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[Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time,  Soon as the woods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faintly as tolls the evening chime, Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time,  Soon as the woods on shore dim,   We'll sing at St. Ann's our parting hymn;    Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast,     The rapids are near and the daylight's past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . .  And boldly venture to whatever place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell, . . . .  And boldly venture to whatever place   Farthest from pain?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4045]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's been our key all year. Our defense has kept us in games and our bats have won them for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37478]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's been our key all year. Our defense has kept us in games and our bats have won them for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22969]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may discover a new side to his most intimate friend when for the first time he hears him speak in public. He will be stranger to him as he is more familiar to the audience. The longest intimacy could not foretell how he would behave then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49942]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When things are at the worst they sometimes mend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48782]]></link><description><![CDATA[When things are at the worst they sometimes mend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Singing and rejoicing, As aye since time began,  The dying earth's last poet   Shall be the earth's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Singing and rejoicing, As aye since time began,  The dying earth's last poet   Shall be the earth's last man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21435]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather put my 10 bucks into the community than put it into Wal-Mart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31625]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather put my 10 bucks into the community than put it into Wal-Mart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9494]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast done a deed whereat valour will weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harmony of aim, not identity of conclusion, is the secret of sympathetic life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just fell in love with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39504]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just fell in love with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12228]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever longs for paradise forgets his desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever longs for paradise forgets his desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is a million fathoms deep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree?  The eye that contemplates it well perceives   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19585]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Reader! hast thou ever stood to see The Holly-tree?  The eye that contemplates it well perceives   Its glossy leaves    Ordered by an Intelligence so wise     As might confound the Atheist's sophistries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, the creative process is the same secret in science as it is in art. They are all the same absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love in its essence is spiritual fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love in its essence is spiritual fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52637]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a lady who couldn't keep her legs together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37954]]></link><description><![CDATA[a lady who couldn't keep her legs together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12422]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessing of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessing of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad  Ushering the mutton; with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet shall you have to rectify your palate, An olive, capers, or some better salad  Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged hen,   If we can get her, full of eggs, and then,    Limons, and wine for sauce: to these a coney     Is not to be despaired of for our money;      And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks,       The sky not falling, think we may have larks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who paies the Physitian, does the cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who paies the Physitian, does the cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heritage of the state is very agricultural. Re-energizing agriculture is the key to Indiana's economy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heritage of the state is very agricultural. Re-energizing agriculture is the key to Indiana's economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study to be quiet, and to do your own business. [1 Thessalonians 4:11]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study to be quiet, and to do your own business. [1 Thessalonians 4:11].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65265]]></link><description><![CDATA[At boarding school there wasn't much time for much of anything except education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I also prepackage cheese and sausage for my homemade pizzas, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31137]]></link><description><![CDATA[I also prepackage cheese and sausage for my homemade pizzas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56930]]></link><description><![CDATA[No amount of artificial reinforcement can offset the natural inequalities of human individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter: I say she never did invent this letter;  This is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23009]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has a housewife's hand; but that's no matter: I say she never did invent this letter;  This is a man's invention and his hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of two evils, choose neither. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of two evils, choose neither.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45633]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7569]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God to explain a trial would be to destroy its purpose, calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25238]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[However, we address these (incursions) as the serious criminal acts that they are, and these cases are actively pursued. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32963]]></link><description><![CDATA[However, we address these (incursions) as the serious criminal acts that they are, and these cases are actively pursued.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65558]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me a lever long enough, and I shall move the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me a lever long enough, and I shall move the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a mom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33592]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a mom and dad and children who have lost everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our district, we?re teaching the younger grades in five buildings and they are too small to be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38687]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our district, we?re teaching the younger grades in five buildings and they are too small to be able to accomplish the things we?re talking about doing here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9857]]></link><description><![CDATA[All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50762]]></link><description><![CDATA[That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 At morn I plucked a rose and give it Thee, A rose of joy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 At morn I plucked a rose and give it Thee, A rose of joy and happy love and peace,  A rose with scarce a thorn:  But in the chillness of a second morn My rose bush drooped, and all its gay increase Was but one thorn that wounded me. I plucked the thorn and offered it to Thee, And for my thorn Thou gavest love and peace,  Not joy this mortal morn:  If Thou hast given much treasure for a thorn, Wilt Thou not give me for my rose increase Of gladness, and all sweets to me? My thorny rose, my love and pain, to Thee I offer, and I set my heart in peace,  And rest upon my thorn:  For verily I think to-morrow morn Shall bring me Paradise, my gift's increase, Yea, give Thy very Self to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9076]]></link><description><![CDATA[News is that which comes from the North, East, West and South, and if it comes from only one point on the compass, then it is a class publication and not news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58961]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't think people would go on about my looks if I was No. 500 in the world instead of No.12, do you? Anyway, as I keep telling everyone, you can't blame me for looking like this on purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58961</guid></item></channel></rss>