<?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[It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60821]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness,  And oftentimes excusing of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10463]]></link><description><![CDATA[When workmen strive to do better than well, They do confound their skill in covetousness,  And oftentimes excusing of a fault   Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse,    As patches set upon a little breach     Discredit more in hiding of the fault      Than did the fault before it was so patched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5017]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're never too old to grow up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26581]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're never too old to grow up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder why prostitution is illegal ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48506]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder why prostitution is illegal]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44119]]></link><description><![CDATA[From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46143]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17461]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not going to be politically acceptable to most people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32778]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not going to be politically acceptable to most people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965  As we look out upon history and the world, it is with the same vision of all things in Christ which dominates the perceptions of all believers, without distinction of age, or race, or Church. Not a saint, a thinker, a hero, or a martyr of the Church, but we claim a share in his character, influence and achievements, by confessing the debt we owe to the great tradition which he has enriched by saintly consecration, true thought, or noble conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62622]]></link><description><![CDATA[For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whate'er in her Horizon doth appear, She is one Orb of Sense, all Eye, all aiery Ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49987]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to set boundaries and say no. The biggest challenge with part-time work is that the work creeps to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37764]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to set boundaries and say no. The biggest challenge with part-time work is that the work creeps to full time. Nobody else is going to manage that for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21200]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll see things "you never knew you never knew.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21653]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll see things "you never knew you never knew.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53905]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to thank God for this retirement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51837]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to thank God for this retirement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No vacation goes unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59585]]></link><description><![CDATA[No vacation goes unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  It is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  It is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up "our own" when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud, He would hardly have us on such terms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm really looking forward to getting some of this rust off of me, getting back into game shape and playing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38370]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm really looking forward to getting some of this rust off of me, getting back into game shape and playing the game, and honestly just being back for my teammates,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61454]]></link><description><![CDATA[This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-love seems so often unrequited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-love seems so often unrequited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words may lie,but actions will always tell the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63547]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words may lie,but actions will always tell the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52869]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar,  Some white tremendous daybreak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, behind the night, Waits for the great unborn, somewhere afar,  Some white tremendous daybreak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a crown Covers bald foreheads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a crown Covers bald foreheads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forethought is easy, repentance hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forethought is easy, repentance hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to realise that nothing really belongs to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to be a regular pattern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40745]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to be a regular pattern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher fuel and energy prices have hit purchasing power, amid a high inflation rate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher fuel and energy prices have hit purchasing power, amid a high inflation rate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61229]]></link><description><![CDATA[War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentia effoetum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22914]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentia effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46099]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60829]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smaller markets are on a much more even playing field, ... There's keen excitement for the season, if the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28661]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smaller markets are on a much more even playing field, ... There's keen excitement for the season, if the league sticks to rule changes they have banked so much on and told the public so much about. If they backslide, they'll chase off fans with the same old product.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19841]]></link><description><![CDATA[An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19841</guid></item></channel></rss>