<?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[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 "I have not sought Thee, I have not found Thee,  I have not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894 "I have not sought Thee, I have not found Thee,  I have not thirsted for Thee: And now cold billows of death surround me, Buffeting billows of death astound me,  Wilt Thou look upon, wilt Thou see  Thy perishing me?" "Yea, I have sought thee, yea, I have found thee,  Yea, I have thirsted for thee, Yea, long ago with love's bands I bound thee: Now the Everlasting Arms surround thee,  Through death's darkness I look and see  And clasp thee to Me.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Venerable Bede, Priest, Monk of Jarrow, Historian, 735 Commemoration of Aldhelm, Abbot of Mamsbury, Bishop of Sherborne, 709   When we inculcate that faith ought to be certain and secure, we conceive not of a certainty attended with no doubt, or of a security interrupted by no anxiety; but we rather affirm, that believers have a perpetual conflict with their own diffidence, and are far from placing their consciences in a placid calm never disturbed by any storms. Yet, on the other hand, we deny, however they may be afflicted, that they ever fall and depart from that certain confidence which they have conceived in the divine mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadistic excess attempts to reach roughly and by harshness what art reaches by fineness. - The Art of Being Ruled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearts of oak are are ships, Hearts of oak are our men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hearts of oak are are ships, Hearts of oak are our men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Farmer and the SnakeOne winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Farmer and the SnakeOne winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom. The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. Oh, cried the Farmer with his last breath, I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel. The greatest kindness will not bind the ungrateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10820]]></link><description><![CDATA[No culture can live, if it attempts to be exclusive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we wanted to do more than anything was to get people in there and into our jeans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34622]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we wanted to do more than anything was to get people in there and into our jeans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9458]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is going well. I'm getting a lot of positive interest, and I'm pleased with the interest thus far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is going well. I'm getting a lot of positive interest, and I'm pleased with the interest thus far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing Under the sky's gray arch;  Smiling I watch the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing Under the sky's gray arch;  Smiling I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing   It is the wind of March.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He told the people the truth - not the whole truth, but it was the first time in Russian history ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41251]]></link><description><![CDATA[He told the people the truth - not the whole truth, but it was the first time in Russian history that a leader has told the people the bitter truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They try to stick to their game plan. They've been winning games. They're not going to change up just because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30520]]></link><description><![CDATA[They try to stick to their game plan. They've been winning games. They're not going to change up just because other teams do something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have made the Reich by propaganda ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48417]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have made the Reich by propaganda]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We each, in our very small ways multiplied by the millions of us are contributing to the overall pollution of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40426]]></link><description><![CDATA[We each, in our very small ways multiplied by the millions of us are contributing to the overall pollution of our waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason. [Fr., L'abstenir pur jouir, c'est l'epicurisme de la raison.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13253]]></link><description><![CDATA[To abstain that we may enjoy is the epicurianism of reason. [Fr., L'abstenir pur jouir, c'est l'epicurisme de la raison.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43089]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still feel the Jets should be in Queens. She's getting a lot of enthusiasm from people on the street ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32444]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still feel the Jets should be in Queens. She's getting a lot of enthusiasm from people on the street to bring the Jets back ... It just seems to be more and more serious as time goes by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44265]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2517]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's helpful that I was an athletic director (at Lutheran before John Ragland took over last year). I know about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37889]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's helpful that I was an athletic director (at Lutheran before John Ragland took over last year). I know about the problems in scheduling, but we try not to make a big deal of it. It's something we don't talk about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conscience is a man's compass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conscience is a man's compass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is no place for sissies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is no place for sissies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quote others in order to better express myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quote others in order to better express myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that lives to forever, never fears dying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11220]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that lives to forever, never fears dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56373]]></link><description><![CDATA[My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our whole evolution up to this point shows that human groups spontaneously evolve patterns of behavior, as well as patterns of training people for that behavior, which tend on balance to lead people to create rather than destroy. Humans are, on net balance, builders rather than destroyers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience means restraining one's inclinations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience means restraining one's inclinations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a sheep of Beery, it is marked on the nose (applyed to those that have a blow). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49560]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a sheep of Beery, it is marked on the nose (applyed to those that have a blow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give an inch, he'll take an ell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give an inch, he'll take an ell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who ask for love in return are coolies demanding wages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who ask for love in return are coolies demanding wages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One learns to itch where one can scratch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/572]]></link><description><![CDATA[One learns to itch where one can scratch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think I was doing everything right, but sometimes even when you're doing right things it's not working. He just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36700]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think I was doing everything right, but sometimes even when you're doing right things it's not working. He just played too well when he had to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fatigue is the best pillow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fatigue is the best pillow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such words fall to often on our cold and careless ears with the triteness of long familiarity; but to Octavia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such words fall to often on our cold and careless ears with the triteness of long familiarity; but to Octavia . . . they seemed to be written in sunbeams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58055]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22861]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than with a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12885</guid></item></channel></rss>