<?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[One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4162]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In just the last two and a half or three years, I've noticed a big difference in the clientele. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34674]]></link><description><![CDATA[In just the last two and a half or three years, I've noticed a big difference in the clientele.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We took all the classes and the shots required by the Red Cross, and they flew us to Mississippi on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33697]]></link><description><![CDATA[We took all the classes and the shots required by the Red Cross, and they flew us to Mississippi on Nov. 21. I also volunteered for the Red Hat Society, because I'm a member of that group.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the human race is beneath their notice, that they're better than other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59693]]></link><description><![CDATA[As sure as ever God puts His children in the furnace, He will be in the furnace with them.   - Charles Hadden Spurgeon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is like a lawn where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure bought with pain does harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure bought with pain does harm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13923]]></link><description><![CDATA[They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of future applications. Videoconferencing through your television is one of the things they're talking about, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of future applications. Videoconferencing through your television is one of the things they're talking about, or being able to chat with friends as the television program is going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40228]]></link><description><![CDATA[An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is that when they talk about quality of health care, patients mean something entirely different than experts do. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34061]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that when they talk about quality of health care, patients mean something entirely different than experts do. They're not talking about numbers or outcomes but about their own human experience, which is a combination of cost, paperwork and what I'll call the hassle factor, the impersonal nature of the care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day  When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57788]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day  When the sun is out and the wind is still,   You're one month on in the middle of May.    But if you so much as dare to speak,     A cloud comes over the sunlit arch,      A wind comes off a frozen peak,       And you're two months back in the middle of March.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised to encounter a species defined as a thinking animal if, in fact, the creature very rarely indulged in actual thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29882]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as the legitimate Lebanese government is convinced that the conditions have ripened and that Lebanon is able to maintain stability on its own... Then, the Syrian forces will return to their homeland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame  Sits mocking in our plumes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mort de ma vie! all is confounded, all! Reproach and everlasting shame  Sits mocking in our plumes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing inevitable about the tensions between our two countries or on the Korean peninsula or in the region, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41269]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing inevitable about the tensions between our two countries or on the Korean peninsula or in the region,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The temple of art is built of words. Painting and sculpture and music are but the blazon of its windows, borrowing all their significance from the light, and suggestive only of the temple's uses.   - Josiah Gilbert Holland (used pseudonym Timothy Titcomb),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always a way to go if you look for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22571]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always a way to go if you look for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comin' through the rye, poor body, Comin' through the rye,  She draigl't a' her petticoatie,   Comin' through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Comin' through the rye, poor body, Comin' through the rye,  She draigl't a' her petticoatie,   Comin' through the rye    . . . .     Gin a body meet a body      Comin' through the rye,       Gin a body kiss a body        Need a body cry?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wisewith other men's wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22683]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wisewith other men's wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All his reverend wit Lies in his wardrobe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58574]]></link><description><![CDATA[All his reverend wit Lies in his wardrobe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every child is born a genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every child is born a genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20362]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To err is natural; to rectify error is glory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60282]]></link><description><![CDATA[To err is natural; to rectify error is glory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62861]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't like how things are, change it!  You're not a tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is always there but the pockets change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is always there but the pockets change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene,  With armes full strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44720]]></link><description><![CDATA[There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene,  With armes full strong and largely displayed,   But of their leaves they were disarayde    The bodie bigge, and mightely pight,     Thoroughly rooted, and of wond'rous hight;      Whilome had bene the king of the field,       And mochell mast to the husband did yielde,        And with his nuts larded many swine:         But now the gray mosse marred his rine;          His bared boughes were beaten with stormes,           His toppe was bald, and wasted with wormes,            His honour decayed, his brauches sere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2786]]></link><description><![CDATA[What beck'ning ghost along the moonlight shade Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Practice is everything"This is often misquoted as "Practice makes perfect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. -Albert Schweitzer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55242]]></link><description><![CDATA[One does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55242</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[Those guys are so athletic. They are one of the most athletic teams I've ever played against. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those guys are so athletic. They are one of the most athletic teams I've ever played against.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something for an Empty Briefcase ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something for an Empty Briefcase]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All children are potential victims, dependent upon the world's good will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60558]]></link><description><![CDATA[All children are potential victims, dependent upon the world's good will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said no. My original vision was that the photos would be black and white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31945]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said no. My original vision was that the photos would be black and white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing proceeds from nothingness, as also nothing passes away into non-existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stoop, boys. This gate Instructs you how t' adore the heavens and bows you  To a morning's holy office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stoop, boys. This gate Instructs you how t' adore the heavens and bows you  To a morning's holy office.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27765]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it more fit for its prime function of looking forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4060]]></link><description><![CDATA[One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We religious leaders need to look very much more deeply. We can so easily have talks with people, and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6649]]></link><description><![CDATA[We religious leaders need to look very much more deeply. We can so easily have talks with people, and they can say we have helped, write us grateful letters, even stand steady for a time till the juice we have put into them runs out; but, we may have brought them no hunger for God -- because that hunger is no ache in our own heart -- nor brought them anywhere near to the end of self.  ... The Notebooks of Florence Allshorn    September 13, 1999  Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407  Not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up in life. These are words by which the slanderers of the nature, of the body, the impeachers of our flesh, are completely overthrown... We do not wish to cast aside the body, but corruption: not the flesh, but death. The body is one thing, corruption another; the body is one thing, death another... What is foreign to us is not the body but corruptibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Delegating means letting others become the experts and hence the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47447</guid></item></channel></rss>