<?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[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  God hath work to do in this world; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7417]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority. It is not enough that we be just, that we be righteous, and walk with God in holiness; but we must also serve our generation, as David did before he fell asleep. God hath a work to do; and not to help Him is to oppose Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47395]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict which each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around your skin, I tie and untie mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around your skin, I tie and untie mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20592]]></link><description><![CDATA[To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the winners decide what were war crimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the winners decide what were war crimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloriously drunk, obey the important call. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60294]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing — a vice little known heretofore in the American army — is growing into fashion. Let the men and officers reflect 'that we can not hope for the blessing of heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are remembered for the rules you break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63336]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are remembered for the rules you break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56654]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike, but hear me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike, but hear me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible that God should ever be the end, if He is not the beginning. We lift our eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7919]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible that God should ever be the end, if He is not the beginning. We lift our eyes on high, but lean upon the sand; and the earth will dissolve, and we shall fall while looking at the heavens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best:  Good husbandry baggeth   Up gold in his chest.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best:  Good husbandry baggeth   Up gold in his chest.   - Thomas Tusser,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me  Weary and old with service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51362]]></link><description><![CDATA[My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me  Weary and old with service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a drop in the bucket. It's helping the stock price today, but gastric cancer is not one of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a drop in the bucket. It's helping the stock price today, but gastric cancer is not one of the biggest markets for cancer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity dispenseth with decorum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity dispenseth with decorum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not fewer than three nor more than nine. [Lat., Neque pauciores tribus, neque plures novem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not fewer than three nor more than nine. [Lat., Neque pauciores tribus, neque plures novem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You would think anyone with a life-or-death decision would want the best information possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36947]]></link><description><![CDATA[You would think anyone with a life-or-death decision would want the best information possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/359]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52714]]></link><description><![CDATA[QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are taking sure, steady steps to a place where the state of Israel will no longer be a democracy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29088]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are taking sure, steady steps to a place where the state of Israel will no longer be a democracy and a home for the Jewish people,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It cannot be used for student housing, ... A lot of landlords aren't interested. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35830]]></link><description><![CDATA[It cannot be used for student housing, ... A lot of landlords aren't interested.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eagles soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eagles soar, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity.  The August-born without this stone   'Tis said must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity.  The August-born without this stone   'Tis said must live unloved and lone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to film is that it's an illusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to film is that it's an illusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee; When I have bent Judah for me, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made thee as the sword of a mighty man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26926]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26415]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good marriage is at least 80 percent good luck in finding the right person at the right time. The rest is trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46680]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though plaiting thick tresses of darkness. Here, too, appear the lighthouses of the mind, with their outward resemblance to less pure symbols. The gateway to mystery swings open at the touch of human weakness and we have entered the realms of darkness. One false step, one slurred syllable together reveal a man's thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves toget it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness is in not knowing what we want and killing ourselves toget it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2358]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slave has but one master. An ambitious man has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Envy is blind, and is only clever in depreciating the virtues of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know how on St. Patrick's Day everybody is Irish. In Quincy this weekend, everybody's German, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42016]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know how on St. Patrick's Day everybody is Irish. In Quincy this weekend, everybody's German,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people think that the new economy is all about the internet. I think that it's being fueled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people think that the new economy is all about the internet. I think that it's being fueled by the internet - as well as by cell phones, digital assistants, and the like - but that it's really about customers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Messages can't be intercepted if they aren't sent, can they?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34277]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44103]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance. -Troilus and Cressida. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to live-I want to love first, and live incidentally. -Zelda Fitzgerald. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14797]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to live-I want to love first, and live incidentally. -Zelda Fitzgerald.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9707]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have great faith in fools--self-confidence my friends call it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9707</guid></item></channel></rss>