<?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[When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61028]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a young man I vowed never to marry until I found the ideal woman. Well, I found her -- but alas, she was waiting for the ideal man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Charger and the MillerA charger, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mill instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Charger and the MillerA charger, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in a mill instead of going out to battle. But when he was compelled to grind instead of serving in the wars, he bewailed his change of fortune and called to mind his former state, saying, Ah! Miller, I had indeed to go campaigning before, but I was barbed from counter to tail, and a man went along to groom me; and now I cannot understand what ailed me to prefer the mill before the battle. Forbear, said the Miller to him, harping on what was of yore, for it is the common lot of mortals to sustain the ups and downs of fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church has magnificent buildings, superb equipment, trained leadership, excellent teaching materials, organizational ability, and yet lacks that one thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6428]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church has magnificent buildings, superb equipment, trained leadership, excellent teaching materials, organizational ability, and yet lacks that one thing that could take all these tools and make them the channel of God's will. In spite of its ever-increasing membership, the church lacks the spirit of God's growing love and understanding that can transform it from an efficient organization into a loving, dynamic fellowship where men and women become vitally alive with faith, love, and hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful when!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hatred of relatives is the most violent. [Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hatred of relatives is the most violent. [Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's close to Chicago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38872]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's close to Chicago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're all living in a chemical soup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9353]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're all living in a chemical soup.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're not really going to throw much new stuff at you on a Wednesday but there's still some stuff we've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32811]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're not really going to throw much new stuff at you on a Wednesday but there's still some stuff we've got to change up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look back, and smile on perils past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look back, and smile on perils past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31347]]></link><description><![CDATA[A city has values as well as slums, excitement as well as conflict a personality that has not yet been obliterated by its highways and gas stations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5825]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must not cheat anybody, not even the world of one's triumph.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24039]]></link><description><![CDATA[And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55489]]></link><description><![CDATA[He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65411]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes you feel very virtuous when you forgive people, doesn't it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58640]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fare ye well, and give us your applause. [Lat., Vos valete et plaudite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fare ye well, and give us your applause. [Lat., Vos valete et plaudite.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60515]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs  Of coming mischief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prophet of evil! never hadst thou yet A cheerful word for me. To mark the signs  Of coming mischief is thy great delight,   Good dost thou ne'er foretell nor bring to pass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that sends a foole expects one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49392]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that sends a foole expects one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one  thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33593]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's absolutely devastating, ... It's one  thing to see it on TV, and it's another to talk to a mom and dad and children who have lost everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our birds are hand-fed by ourselves. Birds don't like to be handled, but hand-feeding is our forte, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our birds are hand-fed by ourselves. Birds don't like to be handled, but hand-feeding is our forte,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When war is declared, truth is the first casualty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61188]]></link><description><![CDATA[When war is declared, truth is the first casualty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I support the McCartney family. I support their demand for justice. I think that there is an onus upon everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35691]]></link><description><![CDATA[I support the McCartney family. I support their demand for justice. I think that there is an onus upon everyone who can help, to help. So good luck to them. And when I go back home I will continue to work on their behalf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the Milosevic trial the court has lost the possibility of finding a conclusion to the question of who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the Milosevic trial the court has lost the possibility of finding a conclusion to the question of who is responsible for what happened in the Balkans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62755]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great, good, and just, could I but rate My grief with thy too rigid fate,  I'd weep the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great, good, and just, could I but rate My grief with thy too rigid fate,  I'd weep the world in such a strain   As it should deluge once again;    But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies     More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes,      I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds       And write thy epitaph in blood and wounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you see someone like that who's in the spotlight and working hard and still not having a big head ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32090]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you see someone like that who's in the spotlight and working hard and still not having a big head and coming to work every day, it makes you want to play harder for the guy. People were getting crazy out there. There's nothing better than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pastoral charge [does not] consist merely in administering the sacraments, chanting the canonical hours, celebrating masses -- though even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pastoral charge [does not] consist merely in administering the sacraments, chanting the canonical hours, celebrating masses -- though even these are not properly done by hirelings --; it consists also in feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, covering the naked, receiving guests, visiting the sick and those in prison. By the doing of these things is the people to be instructed in the holy duties of an active life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am very settled in the North East now. I'll have been here nearly six years by the end of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39345]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am very settled in the North East now. I'll have been here nearly six years by the end of this season and I feel like the people of Sunderland have adopted me,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've felt better with the way I was just getting the puck up ice, playing smart defensively and playing well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've felt better with the way I was just getting the puck up ice, playing smart defensively and playing well on the PK (penalty kill). I'm just trying to carry that into these last games of the season here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59338]]></link><description><![CDATA[No use thinking of the past for its gone, don't think of the future because it has to come, think of the present because thats where you are and thats the place from where you can control the past and the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like we said yesterday, we'll be happy with top five. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like we said yesterday, we'll be happy with top five.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38112]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's going to take awhile, I know. City engineers as well as the [Army] Corps of Engineers are working right now to dredge out an area around Pier 6 so we can bring in barges and help facilitate the removal of the debris. But it's going to take months.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44618]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is a weapon of the strong]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread;  Frowns in the storm with angry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread;  Frowns in the storm with angry brow,   But in the sunshine strikes the blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the surgery ward, the staff works in teams and no one could refuse his orders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36526]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the surgery ward, the staff works in teams and no one could refuse his orders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like that a lot. You think everything's ok, and it is . . . 'till it's not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46455]]></link><description><![CDATA[He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13556]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. -Alec Bourne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould  The purple oak-leaf falls; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44896]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould  The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough   Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live peaceably with all breedes good blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50009]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live peaceably with all breedes good blood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50009</guid></item></channel></rss>