<?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[When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17643]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God gave you to me he never said that you were mine, that I could keep you always--only borrowed for a time. Now, He's called you home, I'm sad and I shed tears. Yet, I'm glad He loaned you to me and we had these many years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've got an agreement with Delphi that is satisfactory. We've been trying to find a soft landing for these individuals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35595]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've got an agreement with Delphi that is satisfactory. We've been trying to find a soft landing for these individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory of a nation and an age is always the work of a few great persons, and it disappears with them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44977]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms like a malcontent, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry, by these special marks: first, you have learned, like Sir Proteus, to wreathe your arms like a malcontent, to relish a love-song like a robin-redbreast, to walk alone like one that had the pestilence, to sigh like a schoolboy that had lost his A B C, to weep like a young wench that had buried her grandam, to fast like one that takes diet, to watch like one that fears robbing, to speak puling like a beggar at Hallowmas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a good house all is quickly ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49529]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a good house all is quickly ready.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4327]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blind man will not thank you for a looking-glass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The odds clearly favor the Bank of Canada raising the overnight rate by a quarter point on May 24 to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The odds clearly favor the Bank of Canada raising the overnight rate by a quarter point on May 24 to 4.25 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anothers bread costs deare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anothers bread costs deare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39273]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can really make jelly out of anything if you have enough sugar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to give her a chance. She needs to tell us where she really lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to give her a chance. She needs to tell us where she really lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46101]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good friend who points out mistakes and imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams;  I bear light shade for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8921]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams;  I bear light shade for the leaves when laid   In their noonday dreams.    From my wings are shaken the dews that waken     The sweet buds every one,      When rocked to rest on their mother's breast,       As she dances about the sun.        I wield the flail of the lashing hail,         And whiten the green plains under,          And then again I dissolve it in rain,           And laugh as I pass in thunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[F]ew things loves better Than to abhor himself-- . . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15]]></link><description><![CDATA[[F]ew things loves better Than to abhor himself-- . . .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64447]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sadness is also a kind of defence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sadness is also a kind of defence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as women are afraid of receiving, men are afraid of giving.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When prayers are done, my Lady is ready. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37182]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Homosexuality is god's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make hay while the sun shines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make hay while the sun shines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on education:   The devout student is the best of all students. There are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on education:   The devout student is the best of all students. There are too many who are devout, but not students. They will not accept the discipline of study and of learning, and they even look with suspicion upon the further knowledge which study brings to men. There are equally too many who are students, but not devout. They are interested too much in intellectual knowledge, and too little in the life of prayer and in the life of service of their fellow men. A man would do well to aim at being not only a student, and not only devout, but at being a devout student.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61452]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50598]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[in public meetings across the country, Brother David has spoken frequently about the fact that the food system has moral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33106]]></link><description><![CDATA[in public meetings across the country, Brother David has spoken frequently about the fact that the food system has moral implications.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel fortunate to get out of here with a victory. It feels like a loss though because we didn't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34201]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel fortunate to get out of here with a victory. It feels like a loss though because we didn't deserve to win and Bridgeport did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26239]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing enduring in life for a woman except what she builds in a man's heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's here to stay, but there are problems to be ironed out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40258]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's here to stay, but there are problems to be ironed out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a gentle way, you can shake the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21096]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a gentle way, you can shake the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56745]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A people free to choose will always choose peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63422]]></link><description><![CDATA[A people free to choose will always choose peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48688]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would chuse to dy in Spain (where they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49056]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man would live in Italy (a place of pleasure) but he would chuse to dy in Spain (where they say the Catholick Religion is professed with greatest strictness).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29457]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16022]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spark neglected has often raised a conflagration. [Lat., Parva saepe scintilla contempta magnum excitavit incendium.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Persuasion is better than force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Persuasion is better than force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46412</guid></item></channel></rss>