<?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[Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.  Sense is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves.  Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound;   When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam;    Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vision: the art of seeing things invisible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/380]]></link><description><![CDATA[Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10315]]></link><description><![CDATA[True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. . . . It takes a touch of genius--and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. . . . It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13679]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24466]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it,the more it begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22467]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it,the more it begins to come together and make sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24850]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom adapts itself to expediency ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom adapts itself to expediency]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35529]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say good-bye er howdy-do-- What's the odds betwixt the two?  Comin'--goin'--every day--   Best friends first to go ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say good-bye er howdy-do-- What's the odds betwixt the two?  Comin'--goin'--every day--   Best friends first to go away--    Grasp of hands you'd ruther hold     Than their weight in solid gold,      Slips their grip while greetin' you,--       Say good-bye er howdy-do?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23807]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/430]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the Jew that Shakespeare drew.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27619]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Malice drinks one half of its own poison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26225]]></link><description><![CDATA[Malice drinks one half of its own poison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence, bashful cunning, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence, bashful cunning, And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62058]]></link><description><![CDATA[How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690   The primary truth about our church membership is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690   The primary truth about our church membership is not that we are members of a particular congregation, but that we have been born into this new race of human beings, the Christian race, which is made up of people out of every nation and tribe and class. Further, each local church is a church only in so far as it is the expression, in a particular place, of this new race that has come into the world through Christ Jesus. It is the mighty acts of God in Him that are the guarantee of our fellowship in the Church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27115]]></link><description><![CDATA[To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have great faith in our players and I've come away from the game more comfortable and confident than I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35968]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have great faith in our players and I've come away from the game more comfortable and confident than I'd have been if I hadn't seen the match,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65915]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sky is that beautiful old parchment  in which the sun   and the moon    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56516]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sky is that beautiful old parchment  in which the sun   and the moon    keep their diary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And though it be a two-foot trout, 'Tis with a single hair pulled out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18577]]></link><description><![CDATA[And though it be a two-foot trout, 'Tis with a single hair pulled out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44514]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burden of Dumah. He calleth to me out of Seir, Watchman, what of the night? Watchman, what of the night?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not only is life too short, it has acne and looks geeky in gym clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not only is life too short, it has acne and looks geeky in gym clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43716]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society. [Sp., Las necedades del rico por sentencias pasan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61381]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society. [Sp., Las necedades del rico por sentencias pasan en el mundo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Overall, the mortgage approvals and lending data indicate that the more robust housing market activity evident in the second half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Overall, the mortgage approvals and lending data indicate that the more robust housing market activity evident in the second half of 2005 has continued into 2006.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a great relief. The guys stayed in the program and stood through my hard times. There is a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39669]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a great relief. The guys stayed in the program and stood through my hard times. There is a lot of satisfaction knowing that we made it through the hard times without me as head coach and that everything is OK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's really an impressive number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31318]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's really an impressive number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves.They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1397]]></link><description><![CDATA[People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's minds are too ingenious in palliating guilt in themselves. [Lat., Ingenia humana sunt ad suam cuique levandam culpam nimio plus facunda.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitiveto the least powerful in our society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice Stevens is one of those who are most sensitiveto the least powerful in our society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10614]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the last Plant game, we changed the whole offense, because this year the defense in our league has been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31669]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the last Plant game, we changed the whole offense, because this year the defense in our league has been a lot tougher. We began running a zone offense to combat Plant's defense. All we did in the lead-up to that game was concentrate on beating them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that there are probably people not ready for retirement living but not ready to take care of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that there are probably people not ready for retirement living but not ready to take care of a household.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56290]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a word is worth a coin, silence is worth two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I blame my mother for nothing, but forgive her for everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65568]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65568</guid></item></channel></rss>