<?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[Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23458]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26084]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel,  I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless clay, And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel,  I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57687]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say some of my stars drink whiskey. But I have found that the ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ballgames.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52827]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conceit is an insuperable obstacle to all progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24044]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the Romans had been obliged to learn Latin, they would never have found the time to conquer the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings,  I should suspect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings,  I should suspect that I worshipped the devil   If I thanked my God for worldly things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them,—but not for love. -As You Like It. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them,—but not for love. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a real risk that this motion could succeed ... and we need to deal with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40538]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a real risk that this motion could succeed ... and we need to deal with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62966]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has to be intelligent, have charm, a sense of humor, and be kind. It's the same qualities I require from a man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while while they are going to heaven somehow make me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those people who tell me that I'm going to hell while while they are going to heaven somehow make me very glad that we're going to separate destinations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28473]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45216]]></link><description><![CDATA[In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet;  'Twas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet;  'Twas a beautiful mist falling down to your wrist,   'Twas a thing to be braided, and jewelled, and kissed--    'Twas the loveliest hair in the world, my pet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During the occupation of Iraq, both US and UK used cluster bombs which killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians. The purpose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29898]]></link><description><![CDATA[During the occupation of Iraq, both US and UK used cluster bombs which killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians. The purpose of using these bombs was to test their efficiency, not to kill Saddam.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/308]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in the end, science does not provide the answers most of us require. Its story of our origins and of our end is, to say the least, unsatisfactory. To the question, "How did it all begin?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." To the question, "How will it all end?", science answers, "Probably by an accident." And to many people, the accidental life is not worth living. Moreover, the science-god has no answer to the question, "Why are we here?" and, to the question, "What moral instructions do you give us?", the science-god maintains silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wouldn't. Tuition goes up every year anyway. It's hard enough to keep up with now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38480]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wouldn't. Tuition goes up every year anyway. It's hard enough to keep up with now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5807]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few virtuous women who are not bored with their trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16592]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is grist that comes to the mill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50966]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is grist that comes to the mill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1021]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, "The Beryl Coronet".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A creature not too bright nor good For human nature's daily food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51858]]></link><description><![CDATA[A creature not too bright nor good For human nature's daily food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And lilies white, prepared to touch The whitest thought, nor soil it much,  Of dreamer turned to lover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25080]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lilies white, prepared to touch The whitest thought, nor soil it much,  Of dreamer turned to lover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can work me damage except myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can work me damage except myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion a stalking horse to shoot other foul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3128]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sunbeams dropped Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche,  Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dim,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59913]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sunbeams dropped Their gold, and, passing in porch and niche,  Softened to shadows, silvery, pale, and dim,   As if the very Day paused and grew Eve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should the devil have all the good tunes?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should the devil have all the good tunes?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't!  On blithe Yuletide when we were fou,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Duncan Gray cam here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't!  On blithe Yuletide when we were fou,   Ha, ha, the wooing o't!    Maggie coost her head fu' high,     Looked asklent and unco skeigh,      Gart poor Duncan stand abeigh:       Ha, ha! the wooing o't!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 When night comes, list thy deeds; make plain the way 'Twixt heaven and thee; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 When night comes, list thy deeds; make plain the way 'Twixt heaven and thee; block it not with delays;  But perfect all before thou sleep'st: then say:  There's one sun more strung on my Bead of days. What's good, score up for joy; the bad, well scanned.  Wash off with tears, and get thy Master's hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goesto bed at night and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21212]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goesto bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But as many things entice us to apostasy, so that it is difficult to keep us faithful to God in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7948]]></link><description><![CDATA[But as many things entice us to apostasy, so that it is difficult to keep us faithful to God in the end, [Jude] calls the attention of the faithful to the last day. For the hope of that alone ought to sustain us, so that we may at no time despond; otherwise, we must necessarily fail every minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This report confirms everything we've ever said about why the Byrd Amendment should be overturned, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34656]]></link><description><![CDATA[This report confirms everything we've ever said about why the Byrd Amendment should be overturned,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a long day, but a good heart rids worke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a long day, but a good heart rids worke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1272]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10873]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music . . .can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43480</guid></item></channel></rss>