<?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[Bring to a boilAdd oilThen bombMs Roy is author of the God of Small Things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring to a boilAdd oilThen bombMs Roy is author of the God of Small Things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57260]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America was targeted for attack because we are the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60273]]></link><description><![CDATA[America was targeted for attack because we are the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no one will keep that light from shining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All literature is gossip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25277]]></link><description><![CDATA[All literature is gossip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any combination of alcohol and gasoline is very unforgiving of water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any combination of alcohol and gasoline is very unforgiving of water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom has not the inspiring bowl made eloquent? [Lat., Foecundi calices quem non fecere disertum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tools were made and born with hands, Every farmer understands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tools were made and born with hands, Every farmer understands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32124]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's the humour of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20065]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's the humour of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36444]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are never more discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Major social movements. . . eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.  Let it go, for it was imperfect, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.  Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot of pressure, a lot of energy in this event. It's very difficult to keep from getting over-excited. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30056]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot of pressure, a lot of energy in this event. It's very difficult to keep from getting over-excited.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13964]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24602]]></link><description><![CDATA[We give up leisure in order that we may have leisure, just as we go to war in order that we may have peace]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relationships based on obligation lack dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7851]]></link><description><![CDATA[If man is not made for God, why is he not happy except in God? If man is made for God, why is he so opposed to God?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never intended to do anything with dogs or anything except donkeys, but there was such a big need with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31046]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never intended to do anything with dogs or anything except donkeys, but there was such a big need with the humane society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28040]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the best world, that we live in, To lend and to spend and to give in:  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62186]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the best world, that we live in, To lend and to spend and to give in:  But to borrow, or beg, or to get a man's own,   It is the worst world that ever was known.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain:  As, painfully to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain:  As, painfully to pore upon a book,   To seek the light of truth, which truth the while    Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweetest ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweetest]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19360]]></link><description><![CDATA[A land without ruins is a land without memories--a land without memories is a land without history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bright lights cast dark shadows when shone from only one direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce oneunit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce oneunit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results witheach unit of effort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I broke a rib saving her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I broke a rib saving her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has been a pretty strong presence at the company for a long time, and was obviously a big driver ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33981]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has been a pretty strong presence at the company for a long time, and was obviously a big driver in the launch of Weekend Edition. The fact that she's leaving by mutual agreement indicates that the board is becoming more active, and is willing to make tougher decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen became a clarion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46020]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen became a clarion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22409]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the way, The works of women are symbolical.  We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62077]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the way, The works of women are symbolical.  We sew, sew, prick our fingers, dull out sight,   Producing what? A pair of slippers, sir,    To put on when you're weary--or a stool     To tumble over and vex you . . . curse that stool!      Or else at best, a cushion where you lean       And sleep, and dream of something we are not,        But would be for your sake. Alas, alas!         This hurts most, this . . . that, after all, we are paid          The worth of our work, perhaps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise is the yuppie version of bulimia]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See! he sinks Without a word; and his ensanguined bier  Is vacant in the west, while far and near ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58327]]></link><description><![CDATA[See! he sinks Without a word; and his ensanguined bier  Is vacant in the west, while far and near   Behold! each coward shadow eastward shrinks,    Thou dost not strive, O sun, nor dost thou cry     Amid thy cloud-built streets.   - Rev. Frederick William Faber,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59697]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18350]]></link><description><![CDATA[While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43949]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where'er his fancy bids him roam, In ev'ry Inn he finds a home--  . . . .   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where'er his fancy bids him roam, In ev'ry Inn he finds a home--  . . . .   Will not an Inn his cares beguile,    Where on each face he sees a smile?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a two-fold mission: To stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure just and equal treatment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a two-fold mission: To stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure just and equal treatment to all citizens alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61168</guid></item></channel></rss>