<?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[Of herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can confound a wise man more than laughter from a dunce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If nominated, I will not accept; if drafted, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11832]]></link><description><![CDATA[If nominated, I will not accept; if drafted, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for the most part, refuse to be written.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble pair of brothers. [Lat., Par nobile fratum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49132]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4264]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64383]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59581]]></link><description><![CDATA[To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66914]]></link><description><![CDATA[All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a kingly act to help the fallen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50735]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a kingly act to help the fallen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can imagine it,You can achieve it.If you can dream it,You can become it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22138]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can imagine it,You can achieve it.If you can dream it,You can become it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern diplomats approach every problem with an open mouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consciousness . . . is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consciousness . . . is the phenomenon whereby the universe's very existence is made known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This many-headed monster, Multitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52461]]></link><description><![CDATA[This many-headed monster, Multitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity only knocks once ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity only knocks once]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23116]]></link><description><![CDATA[An old miser kept a tame jackdaw, that used to steal pieces of money, and hide them in a hole, which a cat observing, asked, "Why he would hoard up those round shining things that he could make no use of?" "Why," said the jackdaw, "my master has a whole chestfull, and makes no more use of them that I do."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood,  The holy name ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18326]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood,  The holy name of Grief--holy herein,   That, by the grief of One, came all our good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Necessity has no law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Necessity has no law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52676]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to virtue . . . it is an act of the will, a habit which increases the quantity, intensity and quality of life. It builds up, strengthens and vivifies personality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51420]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far that little candle throws its beams; So shines a good deed in a naughty world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His proposals just aren't that popular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33405]]></link><description><![CDATA[His proposals just aren't that popular.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/432]]></link><description><![CDATA[There still remains to mortify a wit The many-headed monster of the pit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forcewe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41122]]></link><description><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forcewe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval notion that there is an aristocracy and a people, and the people want a piece of what the aristocracy hada life subsidized enough to have a minimum of work and a maximum of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's starting to show up more and more in the right place. He's highly competitive. And once he gets comfortable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31410]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's starting to show up more and more in the right place. He's highly competitive. And once he gets comfortable with it, he's going to be a hell of a player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the rate of gain in corporate profits slows, even though the economy is booming, productivity is slowing and wages ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40703]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the rate of gain in corporate profits slows, even though the economy is booming, productivity is slowing and wages are going up, so the market will feel worse -- but people will be feeling better,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   We are very shy nowadays of even mentioning Heaven. We are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8545]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   We are very shy nowadays of even mentioning Heaven. We are afraid of the jeer about "pie in the sky", and of being told that we are trying to "escape" from the duty of making a happy world here and now, into dreams of a better world elsewhere. But either there is "pie in the sky" or there is not. If there is not, then Christianity is false, for this doctrine is woven into its whole fabric. If there is, then this doctrine, like any other, must be faced, whether it is useful at political meetings or no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46992]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the end, everybody had a label -- pig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to have the old school and new school combined in this location. Some might want to come here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42444]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to have the old school and new school combined in this location. Some might want to come here for recreational needs, to listen to artists, listen to musicians. We're going to have that, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a written agreement you have a prayer; with averbal agreement you have nothing but air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22395]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a written agreement you have a prayer; with averbal agreement you have nothing but air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60121]]></link><description><![CDATA[So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men would be great criminals did they need as many laws as they break.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19856]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me live in my house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by;  They are good, they are bad; they are weak, they are strong,   Wise, foolish,--so am I;    Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat,     Or hurl the cynic's ban?      Let me live in my house by the side of the road,       And be a friend to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't remember what you can infer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't remember what you can infer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. John Kerry's fellow crewmates -- the men I am honored to share the stage with -- are living testimony to his leadership, his courage under fire, and his willingness to risk his life for his fellow Americans. There is no greater act of patriotism than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou art a traitor. Off with his head! Now by Saint Paul I swear  I will not dine until ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou art a traitor. Off with his head! Now by Saint Paul I swear  I will not dine until I see the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -Colette. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14792]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm. -Colette.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53510</guid></item></channel></rss>