<?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 twig is so easily bended I have banished the rule and the rod:  I have taught them the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The twig is so easily bended I have banished the rule and the rod:  I have taught them the goodness of knowledge,   They have taught me the goodness of God;    My heart is the dungeon of darkness,     When I shut them for breaking a rule;      My frown is sufficient correction;       My love is the law of the school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A small family is soon provided for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27196]]></link><description><![CDATA[A small family is soon provided for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62523]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13550]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. -Kahlil Gibran.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61334]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mortal race is far too weak not to grow dizzy on unwonted brights. [Ger., Das sterbliche Geschlecht ist viel zu schwach  In ungewohnter Hohe nicht zu schwindeln.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to peace, peace is the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45853]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to peace, peace is the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for anything is saltwater--sweat, tears, or the sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for anything is saltwater--sweat, tears, or the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63892]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9078]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves -- blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24208]]></link><description><![CDATA[One half the world laughs at the other, and fools are they all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything in to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52326]]></link><description><![CDATA[An empty head is not really empty; it is stuffed with rubbish. Hence the difficulty of forcing anything in to an empty head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48734]]></link><description><![CDATA[For glances beget ogles, ogles sighs, Sighs wishes, wishes words, and words a letter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.   - Ebenezer Elliott ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The streams, rejoiced that winter's work is done, Talk of to-morrow's cowslips as they run.   - Ebenezer Elliott ("The Corn Law Rhymer"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to win all seven; that's my plan. I don't know about all that other stuff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36365]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to win all seven; that's my plan. I don't know about all that other stuff.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under every stone lurks a politician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under every stone lurks a politician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the only person on earth who can use your ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14293]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just went to roll around with him for a little bit. He got his first points. And dislocated my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39385]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just went to roll around with him for a little bit. He got his first points. And dislocated my elbow. I guess that was the passing of the torch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears:  Pause where we may upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears:  Pause where we may upon the desert road,   Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes someone has to hurt you deep enough to make you realize how better your life is without them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes someone has to hurt you deep enough to make you realize how better your life is without them in it...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and to take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. [Lat., Quid sit futurum cras, fuge quaerere: et  Quem Fors dierum cunque dabit, lucro   Appone.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44980]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed, in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a wide-spread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We begin by being dupe, and end by being rogue. [Fr., On commence par etre dupe,  On finit par ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5526]]></link><description><![CDATA[We begin by being dupe, and end by being rogue. [Fr., On commence par etre dupe,  On finit par etre fripon.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favorite things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favorite things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4329]]></link><description><![CDATA[My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35296]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to have some rules and regulations in America, or the world would empty out here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Report says that you, Fidentinus, recite my compositions in public as if they were your own. If you allow them to be called mine, I will send you my verses gratis; if you wish them to be called yours, pray buy them, that they may be mine no longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who's gonna do your hair, who's gonna do your make-up, the jewelry, the bag, what kind of stockings? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who's gonna do your hair, who's gonna do your make-up, the jewelry, the bag, what kind of stockings?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inspiration is a farce that poets have invented to give themselves importance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15608]]></link><description><![CDATA[An autobiography can distort, facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. It reveals the writer totally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5500]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15101]]></link><description><![CDATA[After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could be the make-or-break of getting that job. Obviously, your appearance matters. It helps with your self-esteem. You definitely, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39713]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could be the make-or-break of getting that job. Obviously, your appearance matters. It helps with your self-esteem. You definitely, definitely want to put your best foot forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1702]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53636]]></link><description><![CDATA[God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53636</guid></item></channel></rss>