<?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[That least pleases us which is most urged on us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50890]]></link><description><![CDATA[That least pleases us which is most urged on us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 For the power Thou hast given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my home: For my restless heart which nothing finite can satisfy:  I give Thee thanks, O God. For the invasion of my soul by Thy Holy Spirit: For all human love and goodness that speak to me of Thee: For the fullness of Thy glory outpoured in Jesus Christ  I give Thee thanks, O God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not love where there is no will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64192]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not love where there is no will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26328]]></link><description><![CDATA[While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prision, I am not free. -Eugene V Debs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45016]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been collecting portrait miniatures for some time. Although we had a few handfuls of examples before 1980, we began ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39329]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been collecting portrait miniatures for some time. Although we had a few handfuls of examples before 1980, we began collecting in a more serious fashion about then.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3421]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sunrise wakes the lark to sing, The moonrise wakes the nightingale.  Come, darkness, moonrise, everything   That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24101]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sunrise wakes the lark to sing, The moonrise wakes the nightingale.  Come, darkness, moonrise, everything   That is so silent, sweet, and pale:    Come, so ye wake the nightingale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16760]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no man so friendless but what he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46779]]></link><description><![CDATA[For me, poetry is an impish attempt to paint the colour of the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60397]]></link><description><![CDATA[It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55887]]></link><description><![CDATA[This sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter what, no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25920]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. No matter what, no matter where, it's always home, if love is there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27102]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard the same news after I was elected [in June] and quite frankly I laughed at it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard the same news after I was elected [in June] and quite frankly I laughed at it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave,  In a vale in the land of Moab,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18199]]></link><description><![CDATA[By Nebo's lonely mountain, On this side Jordan's wave,  In a vale in the land of Moab,   There lies a lonely grave;    But no man built that sepulcher,     And no man saw it e'er,      For the angels of God upturned the sod       And laid the dead man there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31404]]></link><description><![CDATA[My system uses no apparatus. The resistance of your own body is the best and safest apparatus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23344]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real Madrid is in a mess because it's suffering really high pressure and demands. We must take the initiative because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real Madrid is in a mess because it's suffering really high pressure and demands. We must take the initiative because we're at home, we're only a point behind and we can make history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22858]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct,or more uncertain in its success, than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21726]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct,or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in theintroduction of a new order of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss not the discourse of the elders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss not the discourse of the elders.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38538]]></link><description><![CDATA[I appeal to all Britishers to answer this call to arms for the defence of all the principles that we Englishmen have been the first to proclaim in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friend, of my infinite dreams Little enough endures;  Little howe'er it seems,   It is yours, all yours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friend, of my infinite dreams Little enough endures;  Little howe'er it seems,   It is yours, all yours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13710]]></link><description><![CDATA[True eloquence consists in saying all that is necessary, and nothing but what is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1624]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his spirit will be empty of affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40232]]></link><description><![CDATA[All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And solid pudding against empty praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13248]]></link><description><![CDATA[And solid pudding against empty praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This matter has already become a national issue that concerns the whole of Iranian society and I can assure you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35729]]></link><description><![CDATA[This matter has already become a national issue that concerns the whole of Iranian society and I can assure you that no Iranian government will make a compromise on this issue,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Roger Normand:Bomb now. Die later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Roger Normand:Bomb now. Die later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world  But for supporting robbers--shall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4911]]></link><description><![CDATA[What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world  But for supporting robbers--shall we now   Contaminate our fingers with base bribes,    And sell the mighty space of our large honors     For so much trash as may be grasped thus?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20509]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . his master was in a manner always in a wrong Boxe and building castels in the ayre or catching Hares with Tabers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kings of modern thought are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59193]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kings of modern thought are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary; I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20202</guid></item></channel></rss>