<?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 vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned  All perfect combinations, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43435]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned  All perfect combinations, and he made   Us so that we could hear and understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A childs service is little, yet hee is no little foole that despiseth it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49006]]></link><description><![CDATA[A childs service is little, yet hee is no little foole that despiseth it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty, equality, fraternity. [Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty, equality, fraternity. [Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice;  The confidence of reason give;   And in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice;  The confidence of reason give;   And in the light of truth thy    Bondman let me live!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The employment picture remains fairly grim, and that's having a dampening effect on measures of consumer confidence. And we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The employment picture remains fairly grim, and that's having a dampening effect on measures of consumer confidence. And we have higher energy prices, which is another drag on consumer confidence and a 'tax' on consumer spending.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old highway is just too dangerous. Thieves are smart, and we're like sitting ducks there if we're behind a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29325]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old highway is just too dangerous. Thieves are smart, and we're like sitting ducks there if we're behind a truck and forced to stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13750]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope to leave my children a sense of empathy and pity and a will to right social wrongs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1277]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight inthe recognition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight inthe recognition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few actions on Earth more profane than a governmental dream holding hostage the well-being of humanity. When such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38891]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few actions on Earth more profane than a governmental dream holding hostage the well-being of humanity. When such an abrogation occurs, the moral obligation between the government and the people dissolves, and ethics is reduced to insignificance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46926]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better. -King Henry IV. Part I. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do have aircraft in that area making drops, but with the coming of nightfall, we'll have to ground those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32334]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do have aircraft in that area making drops, but with the coming of nightfall, we'll have to ground those shortly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62617]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it is a dead issue. I think that I'm so excited about being a Giant now, and being ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40547]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it is a dead issue. I think that I'm so excited about being a Giant now, and being in this city and being able to bring what I'm going to bring to this organization ? that's what I'm focused on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Tom Wilson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. -Tom Wilson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We ought to consider the end in everything. [Fr., En toute chose il faut considerer la fin.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13784]]></link><description><![CDATA[We ought to consider the end in everything. [Fr., En toute chose il faut considerer la fin.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle   I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthias the Apostle   I shall not value his prayers at all, be he never so earnest and frequent in them, who gives not alms according to his ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never strove to rule the roast, She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10140]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never strove to rule the roast, She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65585]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47294]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two methods, or means, and only two, whereby man's needs and desires can be satisfied. One is the production and exchange of wealth; this is the economic means. The other is the uncompensated appropriation of wealth produced by others; this is the political means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50198]]></link><description><![CDATA[By heaven you have destroyed me, my friends!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know when you’re in a movie and you don’t know anybody else in the theater and the most beautiful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13731]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know when you’re in a movie and you don’t know anybody else in the theater and the most beautiful thing happens on the screen? Everybody there feels this overwhelming sense of whatever that emotion is? You’re surrounded by strangers but you’re all feeling the same thing. The feeling is intensified because it’s being shared by three hundred people all at the same instant. That’s what we try to do, too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listento you if you can make a statement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22116]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will get good attention and people will be more inclined to listento you if you can make a statement whereby their response is, "NoShit!" or at least, "No kidding!".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22305]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who scratch their hair with one finger. [Fearing to discompose their curls. Dandies.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who scratch their hair with one finger. [Fearing to discompose their curls. Dandies.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's my goal. I'd love to have that happen. If things fall into the right place and I work hard, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29237]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's my goal. I'd love to have that happen. If things fall into the right place and I work hard, maybe it will happen. I'm just going to work hard and do the same things that got me here. Hopefully that's enough. I hope they like the way I play and I can get a spot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12668]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites. [Lat., Canis timidus vehementius latrat quam mordet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9609]]></link><description><![CDATA[In men this blunder still you find, All think their little set mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am deeply saddened and shocked by the death of Gene Pitney. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41406]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am deeply saddened and shocked by the death of Gene Pitney.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the boat, we are the sea, I sail in you, you sail in me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4412]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the boat, we are the sea, I sail in you, you sail in me]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So sweet, so sweet the roses in their blowing, So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see;  So blithe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23568]]></link><description><![CDATA[So sweet, so sweet the roses in their blowing, So sweet the daffodils, so fair to see;  So blithe and gay the humming-bird a going   From flower to flower, a-hunting with the bee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aging seems to be the only available way to live a long life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56039]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have touched the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting: I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53182]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking, and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/233]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9983</guid></item></channel></rss>