<?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[What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62906]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4627]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Child of mortality, whence comest thou? Why is thy countenance sad, and why are thine eyes red with weeping?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you can't make that big play, get that turnover every time. We've got to do some basic things, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30521]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you can't make that big play, get that turnover every time. We've got to do some basic things, some good, overall football things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63848]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15252]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13687]]></link><description><![CDATA[each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sudden friendship, sure repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sudden friendship, sure repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I totally have a fear of getting cancer or a tumor, ... I always feel like I gotta get checked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28704]]></link><description><![CDATA[I totally have a fear of getting cancer or a tumor, ... I always feel like I gotta get checked out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is just chaos with better lighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. •Ecclesiasticus 34:2 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who so regardeth dreams is like him that catcheth at a shadow, and followeth after the wind. •Ecclesiasticus 34:2]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. [Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam experimenta.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14690]]></link><description><![CDATA[In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept. [Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam experimenta.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878   Jesus hath many lovers of His heavenly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of George Augustus Selwyn, first Bishop of New Zealand, 1878   Jesus hath many lovers of His heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of His Cross. He hath many desirous of consolation, but few of tribulation. Many love Jesus so long as no adversities befall them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7932</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[I draw whatever hits me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I draw whatever hits me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29531</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[There is no one subsists by himself alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11922]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no one subsists by himself alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that serves well needes not ask his wages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49393]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that serves well needes not ask his wages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good beginning makes a good end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3978]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good beginning makes a good end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere on this planet, someone has a solution to each of the world's problems. It might be one of us. With your help, we can build a more hopeful world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What plant we in this apple tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs  To load the May-wind's restless wings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2940]]></link><description><![CDATA[What plant we in this apple tree? Sweets for a hundred flowery springs  To load the May-wind's restless wings,   When, from the orchard-row, he pours    Its fragrance through our open doors;     A world of blossoms for the bee,      Flowers for the sick girl's silent room,       For the glad infant sprigs of bloom,        We plant with the apple tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good to hold the asse by the bridle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49563]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to hold the asse by the bridle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40222]]></link><description><![CDATA[What will the U.S. senators have to say if there is, as many over here and in the rest of the world suspect, no substance to the allegations against my father and me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15945]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's indebtedness is not virtue; his repayment is. Virtue begins when he dedicates himself actively to the job of gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew the ball was going in. No question about it. You have to put the ball in the basket ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42283]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew the ball was going in. No question about it. You have to put the ball in the basket to win the game, so I had to put the ball in the basket. And backboard? No! I was trying to find the quickest way to put the ball in the basket, period.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33881]]></link><description><![CDATA[The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16014]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no great smoke arise, but there must be some fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wonderful, fantastic, incredible, ... Only Saskatchewan could do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wonderful, fantastic, incredible, ... Only Saskatchewan could do that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear the old coat and buy the new book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear the old coat and buy the new book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emptie vessels sound most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Emptie vessels sound most.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Barnabas the Apostle   Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change; and when we are right, make us easy to live with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The salvation of the world is in man's suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we only will tune in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. •Jean Pierre Claris De Florian   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. •Jean Pierre Claris De Florian               Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52558]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is next to the gods whom reason, and not passion, impels; and who, after weighing the facts, can measure the punishment with discretion. [Lat., Diis proximus ille est  Quem ratio non ira movet: qui factor rependens   Consilio punire potest.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. -The Tempest. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19646]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the very last, he [Napolean] had a kind of idea, that, namely, of "la carriere ouverte aux talents"--the tools ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the very last, he [Napolean] had a kind of idea, that, namely, of "la carriere ouverte aux talents"--the tools to him that can handle them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58094]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, after all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58094</guid></item></channel></rss>