<?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[Be aristocracy the only joy: Let commerce perish--let the world expire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be aristocracy the only joy: Let commerce perish--let the world expire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11118]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arrows are from her dowry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50493]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arrows are from her dowry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These guys are going to be the first people that play in the Wells Fargo Arena in a game that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32790]]></link><description><![CDATA[These guys are going to be the first people that play in the Wells Fargo Arena in a game that matters. It's something they'll remember and take with them the rest of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty. [Lat., Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordidus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty. [Lat., Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordidus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52780]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine,  See! cry'd they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27556]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine,  See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd,   The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From thy own smile I snatched the snake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56675]]></link><description><![CDATA[From thy own smile I snatched the snake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike the iron whilst it is hot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. [Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10655]]></link><description><![CDATA[The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame. [Fr., Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'echafaud.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale, and this cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech listening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25170]]></link><description><![CDATA[And therefore 'tis called a sensible tale, and this cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech listening.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25170</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[There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2021]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25305]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest upon;What would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwell?Absence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to truly master the comfort zone, you have to learn to loveit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21443]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to truly master the comfort zone, you have to learn to loveit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm  Of his own country;--seldom since that day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm  Of his own country;--seldom since that day   Has Spain had heroes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32314]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot win a game of tug-o-war by merely standing firm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His confidence level is much, much higher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36474]]></link><description><![CDATA[His confidence level is much, much higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius . . . arises in the natural, aboriginal concern for the conscious unity of all phenomena.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you fold your hands, Baby Louise! Your hands like a fairy's, so tiny and fair,  With a pretty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3633]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you fold your hands, Baby Louise! Your hands like a fairy's, so tiny and fair,  With a pretty, innocent, saintlike air,   Are you trying to think of some angel-taught prayer    You learned above, Baby Louise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26445]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Thief and His MotherA boy stole a lesson-book from one of his schoolfellows and took it home to his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1588]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Thief and His MotherA boy stole a lesson-book from one of his schoolfellows and took it home to his Mother. She not only abstained from beating him, but encouraged him. He next time stole a cloak and brought it to her, and she again commended him. The Youth, advanced to adulthood, proceeded to steal things of still greater value. At last he was caught in the very act, and having his hands bound behind him, was led away to the place of public execution. His Mother followed in the crowd and violently beat her breast in sorrow, whereupon the young man said, I wish to say something to my Mother in her ear. She came close to him, and he quickly seized her ear with his teeth and bit it off. The Mother upbraided him as an unnatural child, whereon he replied, Ah! if you had beaten me when I first stole and brought to you that lesson-book, I should not have come to this, nor have been thus led to a disgraceful death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55044]]></link><description><![CDATA[All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20092]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brace yourself. We're looking at pretty serious situations in the market place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brace yourself. We're looking at pretty serious situations in the market place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30585]]></link><description><![CDATA[When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth laughs in flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth laughs in flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the results of the Reformation,... which is somewhat difficult of explanation, was the attitude of the Protestant Church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6716]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the results of the Reformation,... which is somewhat difficult of explanation, was the attitude of the Protestant Church of the Reformation to missions during the Reformation period (1517-1650). Having themselves been emancipated from the superstitions and slavery of a false doctrine and a harsh ecclesiastical government, it would be thought most natural that the Reformers and those who followed them should promptly turn their attention to spreading these glad tidings among non-Christian peoples; but here a strange anomaly is found in the fact that there had been hardly any period, in the entire history of the Christian Church, so destitute of any concerted effort to spread the gospel in heathen lands [as] just this period of the Reformation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a right to a defense. A defense is [Tim] did it, or someone else did it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29213]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a right to a defense. A defense is [Tim] did it, or someone else did it!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28752]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the late '70s I had come to question the point of a great deal of what we were doing, in terms of the CIA's overall charter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt. [Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24539]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the worst of madness to learn what has to be unlearnt. [Lat., Extremae est dementiae discere dediscenda.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64010]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3485]]></link><description><![CDATA[All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man.   - Francis Bacon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil be to him who evil thinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil be to him who evil thinks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will  Would not admit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else fee will  Would not admit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be hanged if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue,  Some cogging, cozening slave, to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56554]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be hanged if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue,  Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,   Have not devised this slander.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56554</guid></item></channel></rss>