<?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 hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2850]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men can run the world, why can't they stop wearing neckties? How intelligent is it to start the day by tying a little noose around your neck?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day,  When from his tomb ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye Heavens, how sang they in your courts, How sang the angelic choir that day,  When from his tomb the imprisoned God,   Like the strong sunrise, broke away?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1722]]></link><description><![CDATA[By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55237]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens. -Elizabeth Berg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is no imagination there is no horror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is no imagination there is no horror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34411]]></link><description><![CDATA[I asked [my father] what there was to make doctoring more disgusting than nursing, which women were always doing, and which ladies had done publicly in the Crimea. He could not tell me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  There is no such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Swithun, Bishop of Winchester, c.862 Commemoration of Bonaventure, Franciscan Friar, Bishop, Peacemaker, 1274  There is no such thing as a post-Christian society. One generation may reject the Gospel itself, but it cannot reject it for future generations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's an incredible optimist. Every time there was a problem, she had a positive read. She never gave up. She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33201]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's an incredible optimist. Every time there was a problem, she had a positive read. She never gave up. She was always encouraging and always finding solutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll make the fur Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48714]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll make the fur Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old ways are the safest and surest ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10898]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old ways are the safest and surest ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let it alone. Let it pass by. [Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let it alone. Let it pass by. [Lat., Laissez faire, laissez passer.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life goal was for me to reach out to the needy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37956]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life goal was for me to reach out to the needy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9634]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With renunciation life begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53289]]></link><description><![CDATA[With renunciation life begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [Lat., Nec rationem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers. [Lat., Nec rationem patitur, nec aequitate mitigatur nec ulla prece flectitur, populus esuriens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873   When I trouble myself over a trifle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8218]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873   When I trouble myself over a trifle, even a trifle confessed -- the loss of some little article, say -- spurring my memory, and hunting the house, not from immediate need, but from dislike of loss; when a book has been borrowed of me and is not returned, and I have forgotten the borrower; and fret over the missing volume, ... is it not time that I lost a few things, when I care for them so unreasonably? This losing of things is the mercy of God: it comes to teach us to let them go. Or have I forgotten a thought that came to me, which seemed of the truth? I keep trying and trying to call it back, feeling a poor man until that thought be recovered -- to be far more lost, perhaps, in a notebook into which I shall never look again to find it! I forget that it is live things that God cares about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will never have quotas in this city as long as I am mayor, but we will darn sure have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28713]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will never have quotas in this city as long as I am mayor, but we will darn sure have goals,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change or die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change or die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50862]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge. [Lat., Nulla manus belli, mutato judice, pura est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge. [Lat., Nulla manus belli, mutato judice, pura est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would by my standard of a statesman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57838]]></link><description><![CDATA[A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would by my standard of a statesman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3681]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protecting ourselves optimally against terrorist acts will require that both national and state governments, as well as the public, be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Protecting ourselves optimally against terrorist acts will require that both national and state governments, as well as the public, be cognizant of the real dangers,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18740]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;  Relive my languish, and restore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56631]]></link><description><![CDATA[Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born;  Relive my languish, and restore the light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said, 'oh, the office is backed up with some paperwork.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41891]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said, 'oh, the office is backed up with some paperwork.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes all sorts to make a world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60446]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes all sorts to make a world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in live. Now does he feel his title  Hang loose about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in live. Now does he feel his title  Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe   Upon a dwarfish thief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17499]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts and alms are the expressions, not the essence, of this virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treading softly like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot,  And feeling all along the garden wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treading softly like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot,  And feeling all along the garden wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone someday in this country Decides to raise a memorial to me, I give my consent to this festivity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29397]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone someday in this country Decides to raise a memorial to me, I give my consent to this festivity But only on this condition - do not build it By the sea where I was born, I have severed my last ties with the sea...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44434]]></link><description><![CDATA[In dress, habits, manners, provincialism, routine and narrowness, he acquired that charming insolence, that irritating completeness, that sophisticated crassness, that overbalanced poise that makes the Manhattan gentleman so delightfully small in his greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17397]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65467]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.rnZig Ziglar]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She still loves La Jolla very, very much. She had been used to the heat of New Orleans for so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32097]]></link><description><![CDATA[She still loves La Jolla very, very much. She had been used to the heat of New Orleans for so many years, and she found La Jolla cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will temporarily depress some economic activity, in much the same way a snowstorm could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will temporarily depress some economic activity, in much the same way a snowstorm could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay, many flowering islands lie In the waters of wide Agony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay, many flowering islands lie In the waters of wide Agony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61524]]></link><description><![CDATA[A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We definitely don't believe that this was an accident. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36652]]></link><description><![CDATA[We definitely don't believe that this was an accident.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63614</guid></item></channel></rss>