<?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[The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19005]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One joy scatters a hundred griefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23443]]></link><description><![CDATA[One joy scatters a hundred griefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10848]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are part of life. But you can optimize your life. You can make progress as you strive toward perfection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61605]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57396]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the spirit of the morning sea, I am the awakening and the glad surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment, its wars]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd just as soon a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why;  A king cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd just as soon a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why;  A king cannot swagger, not drink like a beggar,   Nor be half so happy as I.    . . . .     Let the back and side go bare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The (penalty kill) has been doing a great job all year. It's something we want to improve down the stretch ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32576]]></link><description><![CDATA[The (penalty kill) has been doing a great job all year. It's something we want to improve down the stretch and it gives us confidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  If ever we intend to take one step towards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  If ever we intend to take one step towards any agreement or unity, it must be by fixing this principle in the minds of all men -- that it is of no advantage to any man whatever church or way in Christian religion he be of, unless he personally believe the promises, and live in obedience unto all the precepts of Christ; and that for him who doth so, it is a trampling of the whole gospel under foot to say that his salvation could be endangered by his not being of this or that church or way, especially considering how much of the world hath inmixed itself into all the known ways that are in it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the time we think we're sick, it's all in the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart,  In unremitting drudgery and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62150]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many a rustic Milton has passed by, Stifling the speechless longings of his heart,  In unremitting drudgery and care!   How many a vulgar Cato has compelled    His energies, no longer tameless then,     To mould a pin, or fabricate a nail!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[School is a building which has fours walls with tomorrow inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22779]]></link><description><![CDATA[School is a building which has fours walls with tomorrow inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3331]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is the great lost and found department. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is the great lost and found department.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55330]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silent, grim, colossal, the Big City has ever stood against its revilers. They call it hard as iron; they say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silent, grim, colossal, the Big City has ever stood against its revilers. They call it hard as iron; they say that nothing of pity beats in its bosom; they compare its streets with lonely forests and deserts of lava. But beneath the hard crust of the lobster is found a delectable and luscious food. Perhaps a different simile would have been wiser. Still nobody should take offence. We would call nobody a lobster with good and sufficient claws.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61429]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are my honey, honeysuckle, I am the bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3902]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are my honey, honeysuckle, I am the bee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55731]]></link><description><![CDATA[All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34952]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's really important is the emergence of a political class that would agree on the rules of the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/885]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -King John. Act iv. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55796]]></link><description><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune helps the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune helps the brave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stir not dying embers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stir not dying embers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven for the lazy, but we allow eight to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Six hours in sleep is enough for youth and age. Perhaps seven for the lazy, but we allow eight to no one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat;  There's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46603]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a bird I love, with its brooding note, And the trembling throb in its mottled throat;  There's a human look in its swelling breast,   And the gentle curve of its lowly crest;    And I often stop with the fear I feel--     He runs so close to the rapid wheel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51097]]></link><description><![CDATA[No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make enemies, try to change something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make enemies, try to change something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47863]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1874]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63766]]></link><description><![CDATA[A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There may be some bit of caution since we're trading at record levels, but there's a fair bit of money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41924]]></link><description><![CDATA[There may be some bit of caution since we're trading at record levels, but there's a fair bit of money waiting to go into the market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet if thou didst but know how little wit governs this mighty universe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's just the most unbelievable person I've ever met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37755]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just the most unbelievable person I've ever met.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37755</guid></item></channel></rss>