<?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[Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravestones tell truth scarce forty years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Sweep away the illusion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual writer, 1564   Sweep away the illusion of Time; glance, if thou have eyes, from the near moving-cause to the far-distant Mover. The stroke that came transmitted through a whole galaxy of elastic balls, was it less a stroke than if the last ball only had been struck, and sent flying? Oh, could I transport thee direct from the Beginnings to the Endings, how were thy eyesight unsealed, and thy heart set flaming in the Light-sea of celestial wonder! Then sawest thou that this fair Universe, were it in the meanest province thereof, is in very deed the star-domed City of God; that through every star, through every grass-blade, and most through every Living Soul, the glory of a present God still beams. But Nature, which is the Time-vesture of God and reveals Him to the wise, hides Him from the foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1266]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young in limbs, in judgment old. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young in limbs, in judgment old. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him. -Twelfth Night. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55738]]></link><description><![CDATA[One draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55738</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[We ate outside in tents. Food was prepared by a company from Redding, California, that feeds firefighters. It was good, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33698]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ate outside in tents. Food was prepared by a company from Redding, California, that feeds firefighters. It was good, but, wow, 5,000 calories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God save the mark. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55844]]></link><description><![CDATA[God save the mark. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41058]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stir up the hornets. [Fr., Irriter les freslons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stir up the hornets. [Fr., Irriter les freslons.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3414]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river,  For men may come and men may go, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4927]]></link><description><![CDATA[I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river,  For men may come and men may go,   But I go on forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. -Anais Nin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've reach'd the harbour, Hope and Chance adieu! You've play'd with me, now play with others too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've reach'd the harbour, Hope and Chance adieu! You've play'd with me, now play with others too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make allowance for necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48889]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make allowance for necessity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,  I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody,  I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. We must find each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52059]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee a beast doth die, that hath done no good to his country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the greatest refreshment in life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the greatest refreshment in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should have put them away earlier than we did. For my teammates to step up and hit shots helped ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31074]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should have put them away earlier than we did. For my teammates to step up and hit shots helped me out tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48063]]></link><description><![CDATA[To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51519]]></link><description><![CDATA[More mild, but yet more harmful; kind in hatred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I wanted to forget, it killed me to remember and when I wanted to remember, I had the good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16466]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I wanted to forget, it killed me to remember and when I wanted to remember, I had the good fortune to forget]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is 99 percent failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is 99 percent failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52935]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   None use instituted forms or ways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865   None use instituted forms or ways of worship profitably, but such as find communion with God in them, or are seriously humbled because they do not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it willbut grow and gather to itself such explosive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21570]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it willbut grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it burststhrough it will blow up everything in its way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13559]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27294]]></link><description><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44002]]></link><description><![CDATA[--They write here one Cornelius--Son Hath made the Hollanders an invisible eel  To swim the haven at Dunkirk, and sink all   The shipping there.    --But how is't done?     --I'll show you, sir.      It is automa, runs under water       With a snug nose, and has a nimble tail        Made like an auger, with which tail she wriggles         Betwixt the costs of a ship and sinks it straight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The back-doore robs the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49794]]></link><description><![CDATA[The back-doore robs the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65109]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Protection and patriotism are reciprocal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As pure as a pearl, And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5791]]></link><description><![CDATA[As pure as a pearl, And as perfect: a noble and innocent girl.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I!  Freely welcome to my cup,   Could'st ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I!  Freely welcome to my cup,   Could'st thou sip and sip it up;    Make the most of life you may;     Life is short and wears away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60124]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17842]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ask people not to duck the ropes, but they can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29383]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ask people not to duck the ropes, but they can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're clearly sending a message to employees that they will be rewarded for high performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39800]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're clearly sending a message to employees that they will be rewarded for high performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ratons and myse and soche smale dere That was his mete that vii. yere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ratons and myse and soche smale dere That was his mete that vii. yere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13159</guid></item></channel></rss>