<?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[As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16241]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps Providence by some happy change will restore those things to their proper places. [Lat., Deus haec fortasse benigna  Reducet in sedem vice.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to hold a man is in your arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to hold a man is in your arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40292]]></link><description><![CDATA[here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We miss him as a teammate. But we could have won these games (Notre Dame and Wisconsin) with or without ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37399]]></link><description><![CDATA[We miss him as a teammate. But we could have won these games (Notre Dame and Wisconsin) with or without him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26439]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only summit meeting that can succeed is the one that does not take place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/948]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their weapons are formidable, ... A coup would be very risky and would give NATO an excuse for finishing off ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their weapons are formidable, ... A coup would be very risky and would give NATO an excuse for finishing off Milosevic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're more knowledgeable since I went away. But it's not something that's brought up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36199]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're more knowledgeable since I went away. But it's not something that's brought up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, space the beechen tree! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, space the beechen tree!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66675]]></link><description><![CDATA[My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. [Lat., Stultum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18579]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness. [Lat., Stultum est in luctu capillum sibi evellere, quasi calvito maeror levaretur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consumers, with higher energy prices and higher interest rates, are going to have cut back somewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consumers, with higher energy prices and higher interest rates, are going to have cut back somewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16547]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. -Alden Nowlan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live well. It is the greatest revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live well. It is the greatest revenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Antony of Egypt, Abbot, 356 Commemoration of Charles Gore, Bishop, Teacher, Founder of the Community of the Resurrection, 1932 In the pure soul, whether it sing or pray, The Christ is born anew from day to day. The life that knoweth Him shall bide apart And keep eternal Christmas in the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55240]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is no fool who gives that which he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. -Jim Elliot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon."N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon."N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire. - Pensees d'Aout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54391]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36274]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration . . . because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being,  Through what new scenes and changes must we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternity! thou pleasing dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried being,  Through what new scenes and changes must we pass!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder why he shot me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder why he shot me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not altogether a delerium, yet it has many points in common therewith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not altogether a delerium, yet it has many points in common therewith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greene wood makes a hott fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greene wood makes a hott fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hero is someone we can admire without apology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19268]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hero is someone we can admire without apology.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4700]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!  What sights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61303]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Lord! methought what pain it was to drown! What dreadful noise of waters in mine ears!  What sights of ugly death within mine eyes!   Methoughts I saw a thousand fearful wracks;    A thousand men that fishes gnawed upon;     Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl,      Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels,       All scatt'red in the bottom of the sea:        Some lay in dead men's skulls, and in the holes         Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept          (As 'twere in scorn of eyes) reflecting gems,           That wooed the slimy bottom of the deep            And mocked the dead bones that lay scatt'red by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12350]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62401]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One picture is worth ten thousand words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48615]]></link><description><![CDATA[One picture is worth ten thousand words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly,  Till, wafted by a gentle breeze,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly,  Till, wafted by a gentle breeze,   They faint and languish by degrees,    And at a distance die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've made a push to play our best basketball in the final two weeks. We will need to be at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32530]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've made a push to play our best basketball in the final two weeks. We will need to be at our best mentally and physically in the tournament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good orators, when they are out, they will spit. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good orators, when they are out, they will spit. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are for a comprehensive solution to the immigration process. There was talk of a lot of little things on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28771]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are for a comprehensive solution to the immigration process. There was talk of a lot of little things on Monday. We decided to have a larger one which we hope will catch the attention of elected officials, especially the state and federal officials.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64743]]></link><description><![CDATA[As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom begins at the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom begins at the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the rider that breaks youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the rider that breaks youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The woman is the home. That's where she used to be, and that's where she still is. You might ask me, What if a man tries to be part of the home -- will the woman let him? I answer yes. Because then he becomes one of the children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22965]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22965</guid></item></channel></rss>