<?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[There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4960]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try to take advantage of everything. If we have one mismatch we'll ride it as long as we can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40409]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try to take advantage of everything. If we have one mismatch we'll ride it as long as we can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is excitement without breath. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is excitement without breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head,  Where shall it find a harbor in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15632]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head,  Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62182]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53719]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26114]]></link><description><![CDATA[And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but The truth in masquerade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26653]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54480]]></link><description><![CDATA[The court is like a palace built of marble; I mean that it is made up of very hard but very polished people. [Fr., La cour est comme un edifice bati de marbre; je veux dire qu'elle est composee d'hommes fort durs mais fort polis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61373]]></link><description><![CDATA[And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10823]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of Divine accident. -Sir Hugh Walpoe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, powerful bacillus, With wonder how you fill us,  Every day!   While medical detectives,    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, powerful bacillus, With wonder how you fill us,  Every day!   While medical detectives,    With powerful objectives,     Watch your play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one of them shows a different picture of misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one of them shows a different picture of misery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. [Lat., Facito aliquid operis, ut semper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. [Lat., Facito aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus inveniat occupatum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/834]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get this shot maybe once in a lifetime. You don't want to let this opportunity to pass you by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31506]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get this shot maybe once in a lifetime. You don't want to let this opportunity to pass you by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Light is the symbol of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Light is the symbol of truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All leaders strive to turn their followers into children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47596]]></link><description><![CDATA[All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No season now for calm, familiar talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58613]]></link><description><![CDATA[No season now for calm, familiar talk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24547]]></link><description><![CDATA[By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is self-punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[we cannot give in to terror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41264]]></link><description><![CDATA[we cannot give in to terror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When his heart is glad Of the full harvest, I will speak to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51724]]></link><description><![CDATA[When his heart is glad Of the full harvest, I will speak to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God's sake, take this seriously. Don't behave normally. Don't look for compromises. Be great, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40848]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God's sake, take this seriously. Don't behave normally. Don't look for compromises. Be great,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28294]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interests. Why? Not because the risks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still, year after year strong mercury rules fail in Washington under pressure from corporate interests. Why? Not because the risks of mercury poisoning aren’t real. No, lobbyists for the big industries just say they can’t afford to make changes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In youth we learn; in age we understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46269]]></link><description><![CDATA[In youth we learn; in age we understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18073]]></link><description><![CDATA[By "guts" I mean, grace under pressure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18050]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical. Our society is very reactive rather than proactive, and it bothers me that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29138]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical. Our society is very reactive rather than proactive, and it bothers me that the huge changes right after September 11, like the National Guard at the airport, have been cut back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18249]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man was ever great without divine inspiration. [Lat., Nemo vir magnus aliquo afflatu divino unquam fuit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night after night, He sat and bleared his eyes with books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and talk too much of Prosperpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down. Aye, and Ben Jonson too. O that B.J. is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving poets a pill, but our fellow, Shakespeare, hath given him a purge that made him beray his credit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64266]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29574]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to write it that way, ... that would be helpful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32979]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to write it that way, ... that would be helpful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The perfect going-away gift for a college student-athlete. A dictionary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36702]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow in my game. I just have to keep playing the same way I have been this week and give 100 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is never where virtue is not. [Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is never where virtue is not. [Fr., La gloire n'est jamais ou la vertu n'est pas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58699]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman is like a teabag, you never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3416]]></link><description><![CDATA[A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47089</guid></item></channel></rss>