<?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://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23138]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12062]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43131]]></link><description><![CDATA[To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skills are cheap; chemistry is expensive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skills are cheap; chemistry is expensive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess I got that one off my back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35464]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess I got that one off my back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears, And harsh in sound to thine. -Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56083]]></link><description><![CDATA[A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears, And harsh in sound to thine. -Coriolanus. Act iv. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26698]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively, and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27481]]></link><description><![CDATA[When force is necessary, it must be applied boldly, decisively, and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a manuever, the blow with an agreement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We need not despair of any man, so long as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We need not despair of any man, so long as he lives. For God deemed it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit evil at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earth laughs in flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth laughs in flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pool noodle is not the important thing. Watch the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pool noodle is not the important thing. Watch the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ice does not in pain screamwhen in the sun he melts into streamnor does he in pain screamwhen he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ice does not in pain screamwhen in the sun he melts into streamnor does he in pain screamwhen he higher climbs into spiraling steam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimated--too low down, a perfect choke-damp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimated--too low down, a perfect choke-damp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,  The glass of fashion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The courtier's, soldier's, scholar's, eye, tongue, sword, Th' expectancy and rose of the fair state,  The glass of fashion and the mould of form,   Th' observed of all observers, quite, quite down!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we're saying Big Tobacco is going to be held to account for their products, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we're saying Big Tobacco is going to be held to account for their products,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60634]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seriously doubt if we will ever have another war. This is probably the very last one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26054]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240  We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. [Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande alors qu'il ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever can do as he pleases, commands when he entreats. [Fr., Qui peut ce qui lui plait, commande alors qu'il prie.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date;  Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even thou who mournst the daisy's fate, That fate is thine--no distant date;  Stern Ruin's ploughshare drives, elate,   Full on thy bloom,    Till crushed beneath the furrow's weight     Shall be thy doom!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sun comes up, I have morals again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43142]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sun comes up, I have morals again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52927]]></link><description><![CDATA[A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted in the air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit:  But all was false and hollow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11538]]></link><description><![CDATA[He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit:  But all was false and hollow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whoever is deceived thereby is not wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/894]]></link><description><![CDATA[My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discover Greatness: An Illustrated History of Negro Leagues Baseball, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discover Greatness: An Illustrated History of Negro Leagues Baseball,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have to have sufficient detail in their plan to both satisfy the court and get the funds they need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42414]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have to have sufficient detail in their plan to both satisfy the court and get the funds they need to exit bankruptcy. They need to show that they have a plan that will function properly for the longer term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21565]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20684]]></link><description><![CDATA[And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance of the law excuses no man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance of the law excuses no man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  God will not hold us responsible to understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your dreams, work hard, practice and persevere. Make sure you eat a variety of foods, get plenty of exercise and maintain a healthy lifestyle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the Armes of England will not arme feare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49108]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the Armes of England will not arme feare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21761]]></link><description><![CDATA[If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bid the Devil take the slowest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bid the Devil take the slowest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63593]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1391]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith; and he that hath fellowship with a proud man shall be like unto him. [Ecclesiasticus 13:1].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/333]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A watch is the most important piece of jewelry you can wear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41810]]></link><description><![CDATA[A watch is the most important piece of jewelry you can wear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece!  Cum sit turpe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin. [Lat., Omnia Graece!  Cum sit turpe magis nostris nescire Latine.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where can a person be better than in the bosom of their family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the whole we must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53476]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the whole we must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion; or with any other feeling than regret, and hope, and brotherly commiseration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61767]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61767</guid></item></channel></rss>