<?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[The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes,  Low in the heather blooms   Sweet will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes,  Low in the heather blooms   Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be!    Emblem of happiness,     Blest is thy swelling-place--      O, to abide in the desert with thee!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44573]]></link><description><![CDATA[O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the reflection of thy nature!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51112]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas Christmas broached the mightiest ale, 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A simple "I love you" means more than money... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A simple "I love you" means more than money...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need loving the most when they deserve it the least ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46042]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need loving the most when they deserve it the least]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wiseman speaks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22171]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wiseman speaks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5785]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It grossed something like 12 million dollars and started a cycle of so-called boy-meets-ghoul horror films.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As, poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61310]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet from the green mossy brim to receive it, As, poised on the curb, it inclined to my lips!  Not a full blushing goblet could tempt me to leave it,   The brightest that beauty or revelry sips.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of my kidney. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of my kidney. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act iii. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus will prevail. His Church will prevail. Everything else is just passing away. Our current leadership [of the Episcopal Church ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus will prevail. His Church will prevail. Everything else is just passing away. Our current leadership [of the Episcopal Church USA] will die one day, as will you and I. It is not for us to condemn others, but to witness to them of Him who is in our lives. Even now, the enemy is at work, but Jesus will prevail. I know a God whose mercy knows no limits and whose power has no restraints.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6244</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[This is the spot where I am mortal. [Ger., Hier ist die Stelle wo ich sterblich bin.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43175]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the spot where I am mortal. [Ger., Hier ist die Stelle wo ich sterblich bin.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we think, we become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59144]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we think, we become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9041]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger that persuades to evil. [Lat., Malesuada fames.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger that persuades to evil. [Lat., Malesuada fames.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20168</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[Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you change your offense, there will be a transition period and you'll have some rough spots. I was fairly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31200]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you change your offense, there will be a transition period and you'll have some rough spots. I was fairly impressed, for asking them to make a change in two weeks. It was a great job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest Criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, afriend, an aquaintance, or a stranger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest Criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, afriend, an aquaintance, or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy. [Lat., Illud tamen in primis testandum est, nihil praecepta atque artes valere nisi adjuvante natura.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23164]]></link><description><![CDATA[To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46890]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Important principles may and must be inflexible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Important principles may and must be inflexible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before you can see the light, you have to deal with the darkness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before you can see the light, you have to deal with the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and life are for to-day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and life are for to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54164]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get what you reward. Be clear about what you want to get and systematically reward it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19904]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of housework is to sweep the room with a glance]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you play safety in this defense, you have to know a lot about where people fit, what's going on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35375]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you play safety in this defense, you have to know a lot about where people fit, what's going on and the whole big picture. Eric has a very good grasp of the picture, of our whole defense. He's going to get the guys lined up in the right spots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44122]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man travels the world over in search of what he needs, and returns home to find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56549]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . For slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55330]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy--give one and take ten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12336]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy--give one and take ten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14639]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you count all your assets, you always show a profit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48340]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you count all your assets, you always show a profit]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rainy days a man saves for usually seem to arrive during his vacation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Us seniors didn't want it to be our last game. I think we wanted it more than them at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Us seniors didn't want it to be our last game. I think we wanted it more than them at the end. It was a great game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1736]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51628]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ungrateful man injures all who need assistance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5241]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63061]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12527]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is no disgrace to start all over. It is usually an opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12527</guid></item></channel></rss>