<?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 miser is ever in want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser is ever in want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is very, very surprised -- Microsoft on their doorstep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is very, very surprised -- Microsoft on their doorstep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29764]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't know how they live, where they go, how many of them there are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39743]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know how they live, where they go, how many of them there are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is no struggle, there is no strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. Just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29795]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will respond in kind to all those who took part in the aggression on Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. Just as they made rivers of blood flow in our countries, we will make volcanoes of anger erupt in their countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be the change we wish to see in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21094]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be the change we wish to see in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain: Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:  Who maketh his angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire:   Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cat is above all things, a dramatist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12818]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cat is above all things, a dramatist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If you have failings, ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  If you have failings, ask God often whether it be His honour and pleasure to take them away from you; for without Him you can do nothing. If he takes them away, thank Him; but if He does not do that, you will bear it no more, however, as the defect of a sin, but as a great trial with which you are to gain merit and practice patience. You should be content, whether or not He accords you His gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, sadly, accidental rudeness occurs alarmingly often. Best to say nothing at all, my dear man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43830]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44303]]></link><description><![CDATA[The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Successful people make money. It's not that people who make moneybecome successful, but that successful people attract money. They bringsuccess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Successful people make money. It's not that people who make moneybecome successful, but that successful people attract money. They bringsuccess to what they do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are unquestionably some patients getting too many embryos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32919]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are unquestionably some patients getting too many embryos.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the final achievement.  After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the final achievement.  After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.  [Ger., Ein edler ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44575]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble soul alone can noble souls attract; And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.  [Ger., Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an,   Und weiss sie fest zu halten, wie ihr thut.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1823]]></link><description><![CDATA[If youth knew; if age could. -Henri Estienne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, therefore I am - I think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27675]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, therefore I am - I think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44343]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56398]]></link><description><![CDATA[All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43691]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a great victory that comes without blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a great victory that comes without blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in "believing" in God]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Cornwall:) Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man? (Kent:) A tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58572]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Cornwall:) Thou art a strange fellow. A tailor make a man? (Kent:) A tailor, sir. A stonecutter or a painter could not have made him ill, though they had been but two years o' th' trade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A room without books is like a body without a soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A room without books is like a body without a soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20660]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave Love mercy, and delight to save. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave Love mercy, and delight to save.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the things the business people in the rich world wanted, they got in the Uruguay Round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the things the business people in the rich world wanted, they got in the Uruguay Round.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885  Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never belonged wholeheartedly to a country, a state, nor to a circle of friends, nor even to my own family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61689]]></link><description><![CDATA[If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5547]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4302]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary -- they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals that go into (shelters) everywhere, if they have anything wrong with them, if they're not social, they're immediately put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals that go into (shelters) everywhere, if they have anything wrong with them, if they're not social, they're immediately put down. Very few of them are kept, and the ones that are kept are the ones they think would be adoptable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what they want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what they want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evangelism is not an option for the Christian life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The cartoon controversy] has struck a chord of public anger. The spark was provided by the cartoons, but it's already ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29787]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The cartoon controversy] has struck a chord of public anger. The spark was provided by the cartoons, but it's already political, and the target now is the government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,  And to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45538]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you've walked up the Rue la Paix at Paris, Been to the Louvre and the Tuileries,  And to Versailles, although to go so far is   A thing not quite consistent with your ease,    And--but the mass of objects quite a bar is     To my describing what the traveller sees.      You who have ever been to Paris, know;       And you who have not been to Paris--go!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our strength was that overall, we had a bunch of kids do well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our strength was that overall, we had a bunch of kids do well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one should be judge in his own cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51651]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one should be judge in his own cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would 't were bedtime, Hal, and all well. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would 't were bedtime, Hal, and all well. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is walk the line between not giving out any more [incentives] than absolutely necessary and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35923]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we're trying to do is walk the line between not giving out any more [incentives] than absolutely necessary and ensuring ... the program is not being taken advantage of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40038</guid></item></channel></rss>