<?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[Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homesickness is. . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.  You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to do any of the legwork themselves. They've spent their whole life working and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people don't want to do any of the legwork themselves. They've spent their whole life working and doing everything and now they are retired and want to be utterly pampered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62654]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. [It., Gli ambasciadori sono l'occhio e l'orecchio degli stati.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states. [It., Gli ambasciadori sono l'occhio e l'orecchio degli stati.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14635]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone but in every leaf in springtime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23716]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47184]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Las Vegas is one of the most dynamic tourist and convention destinations in the United States, providing a high profile ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Las Vegas is one of the most dynamic tourist and convention destinations in the United States, providing a high profile presence for the group in North America that will complement Shangri-La's developments in Miami, Chicago and Vancouver. Guests at the Shangri-La Hotel, Las Vegas will experience a new brand of sophisticated hospitality - warm, distinctively Asian, with highly personalized service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away!  Under a cruel eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13391]]></link><description><![CDATA[But to go to school in a summer morn, Oh, it drives all joy away!  Under a cruel eye outworn,   The little ones spend the day--    In sighing and dismay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A niche in the temple of Fame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A niche in the temple of Fame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We urge the Supreme People's Court to conduct an immediate review of this decision with a view to overturning it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41751]]></link><description><![CDATA[We urge the Supreme People's Court to conduct an immediate review of this decision with a view to overturning it. Extending the death penalty to cover more crimes goes against the international trend towards abolition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me take you a button-hole lower. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me take you a button-hole lower. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles,  Hangs silent on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27455]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles,  Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012   The higher faiths call their followers to strenuous moral effort. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Alphege, Archbishop of Canterbury, Martyr, 1012   The higher faiths call their followers to strenuous moral effort. Such effort is likely to be arduous and painful in proportion to the height of the ideal, desperate in proportion to the sensitiveness of the conscience. A morbid scrupulousness besets the morally serious soul. It is anxious and troubled, afraid of evil, haunted by the memory of failure. The best of the Pharisees tended in this direction, and no less the best of the Stoics. And so little has Christianity been understood that the popular idea of a serious Christian is modeled upon the same type of character. (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! Thou little valiant, great in villany! Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion that dost never fight But when her humorous ladyship is by To teach thee safety. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke and it came out to hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where did you get that pearly ear? God spoke and it came out to hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23933]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is so far from being needless pains, that it may bring considerable profit, to carry Charcoals to Newcastle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came out here with one suit and everybody said I looked like a bum. Twenty years later Marlon Brando came out with only a sweatshirt and the town drooled over him. That shows how much Hollywood has progressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust, but verify. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust, but verify.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I felt like slitting my wrists I used to like listening to depressed singers from the 1970s. It was great music for a misunderstood teenager. And when I'm feeling misunderstood these days, I'll stick on a bit of Leonard Cohen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout,  Touched by light, with heavenly warning   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft as Memnon's harp at morning, To the inward ear devout,  Touched by light, with heavenly warning   Your transporting chords ring out.    Every leaf in every nook,     Every wave in every brook,      Chanting with a solemn voice       Minds us of our better choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water heats up much more slowly than land surfaces, so in the summer the water is acting to cool the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water heats up much more slowly than land surfaces, so in the summer the water is acting to cool the surrounding land surface. In the winter, the opposite happens. In winter the water remains warmer than the surrounding land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will,--and wisdom finds a way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48937]]></link><description><![CDATA[In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will,--and wisdom finds a way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality can be beaten with enough imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not and should not be a target of terrorists but we are alert for any possibilities, ... We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28259]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not and should not be a target of terrorists but we are alert for any possibilities, ... We have not done anything to make people hate us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57811]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busy idleness urges us on. [Lat., Strenua nos exercet inertia.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I owe my solitude to other people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I owe my solitude to other people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I saw the chair in design magazines. It was also in Child Magazine. The designers really thought about who their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I saw the chair in design magazines. It was also in Child Magazine. The designers really thought about who their user was.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6969]]></link><description><![CDATA[One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;  His form was bent, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18629]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;  His form was bent, and his gait was slow,   His long thin hair was white as snow,    But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye.     And he sang every night as he went to bed,      "Let us be happy down here below:       The living should live, though the dead be dead."        Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1325]]></link><description><![CDATA[My advice is to look out for engineers. They begin with sewing machines and end up with nuclear bombs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46781]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble theirfood, and tyrannize their teachers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble theirfood, and tyrannize their teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I give not gold for mere expectations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51741]]></link><description><![CDATA[I give not gold for mere expectations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32737]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor dancer will be disturbed even by the hem of her skirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11008]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor dancer will be disturbed even by the hem of her skirt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those two stood up and said they didn't want to do that again, and the rest of the kids are saying they train with them, why can't they go to state, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I observe that Christ and His forerunner John in their parabolic discourses were wont to allude to things present. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8436]]></link><description><![CDATA[I observe that Christ and His forerunner John in their parabolic discourses were wont to allude to things present. The old prophets, when they would describe things emphatically, did not only draw parables from things which offered themselves, as from the rent of a garment, ... from the vessels of a potter, ... but also, when such objects were wanting, they supplied them by their own actions, as by rending a garment, ... by shooting, ... etc. By such types the prophets loved to speak. And Christ, being endued with a nobler prophet spirit than the rest, excelled also in this kind of speaking, yet so as not to speak by His own actions -- [which would have been] less grave and decent -- but to turn into parables such things as offered themselves. On occasion of the harvest approaching, He admonishes His disciples once and again of the spiritual harvest. Seeing the lilies of the field, He admonishes His disciples about clothing. In allusion to the present season of fruits, He admonishes His disciples about knowing men by their fruits. In the time of the Passover, when trees put forth their leaves, He bids His disciples, "learn a parable from the fig-tree".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8436</guid></item></channel></rss>