<?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[Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be a good move to endorse the first African-American presiding officer and an Italian-Irish soccer mom from Great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40843]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be a good move to endorse the first African-American presiding officer and an Italian-Irish soccer mom from Great Neck. We're poster children for the New York State Democratic primary voters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44946]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["An't it please your Honour," quoth the Peasant, "This same Desset is not so pleasant:  Give me again my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13252]]></link><description><![CDATA["An't it please your Honour," quoth the Peasant, "This same Desset is not so pleasant:  Give me again my hollow Tree,   A Crust of Bread, and Liberty."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're doing everything we can to keep him ready for whatever the future brings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40770]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're doing everything we can to keep him ready for whatever the future brings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things bright and beautiful, / All creatures great and small, / All things wise and wonderful,/ The Lord God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31239]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things bright and beautiful, / All creatures great and small, / All things wise and wonderful,/ The Lord God made them all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27226]]></link><description><![CDATA[On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They'd say, 'Thank you, but it's the people on the coast we're most concerned about,' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39163]]></link><description><![CDATA[They'd say, 'Thank you, but it's the people on the coast we're most concerned about,']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't win the presidency if you don't carry Florida. That gives us a leg up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28629]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't win the presidency if you don't carry Florida. That gives us a leg up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31783]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was 6 years old, I had a little fur coat, but that was it. That's the only time I've ever had any in my life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not their capacity for meditation, but their capacity for suffering and love. For there is a hard and costly element, a deep seriousness, a crucial choice, in all genuine religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4508]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never bolt your door with a boiled carrot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60152]]></link><description><![CDATA[What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And where the offense is, let the great axe fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54097]]></link><description><![CDATA[And where the offense is, let the great axe fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was prepared to go to Norfolk when the phone call came. It changed my day. I just got on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was prepared to go to Norfolk when the phone call came. It changed my day. I just got on a different plane at the airport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wish to be what you are, and wish for no other position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14545]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that Gods bids us do good for evil: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60651]]></link><description><![CDATA[But then I sigh, and, with a piece of Scripture, Tell them that Gods bids us do good for evil:  And thus I clothe my naked villainy   With odd old ends stol'n forth of holy writ,    And seems a saint, when most I play the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When children stand quiet, they have done some ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50069]]></link><description><![CDATA[When children stand quiet, they have done some ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. -Elie Weisel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where is the indignation about the fact that the United States and Soviet Union have accumulated thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three acres and a cow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three acres and a cow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly you're seeing conflicting signs about the economy and the market reacting to that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly you're seeing conflicting signs about the economy and the market reacting to that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have the highest customer satisfaction that I've seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38963]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have the highest customer satisfaction that I've seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that these kids are given an opportunity to play, because whatever happened before, they had nothing to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36253]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that these kids are given an opportunity to play, because whatever happened before, they had nothing to do with it. I just hope they have an opportunity to compete. They really deserve to. They have some great ballplayers in Cuba.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24788]]></link><description><![CDATA[The naked truth is always better than the best dressed lie]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is the behavior people take under the pressure of survival. This is misconstrued as looting, as thievery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30049]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is the behavior people take under the pressure of survival. This is misconstrued as looting, as thievery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Help thi kynne, Crist bit (biddeth), for ther bygynneth charitie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.   - Sir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54974]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.   - Sir Thomas Browne,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the wooing That is not long a-doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the wooing That is not long a-doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our federal Union: it must be preserved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our federal Union: it must be preserved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has always had more force than education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has always had more force than education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world. He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,  Or Jove for's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44584]]></link><description><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world. He would not flatter Neptune for his trident,  Or Jove for's power to thunder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57151]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52366]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has no inborn skills, the survival of the species has depended on the ability to acquire and perfect skills. Hence the mastery of skills is a uniquely human activity and yields deep satisfaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27325]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist  Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Beheading of John the Baptist  Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your own coldness and avarice and mediocrity and materialism and selfishness that have chilled his faith.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil,  Must bring its tribute, great or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56180]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil,  Must bring its tribute, great or small,   And help to build the wooden wall!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no remedy for sex but more sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28050]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no remedy for sex but more sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23584]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23584</guid></item></channel></rss>