<?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[Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26437]]></link><description><![CDATA[All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man has by the law of nature a right to such a waste portion of the earth as is necessary for his subsistence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The relationship is the communication bridge between people. -Alfred Kadushin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The relationship is the communication bridge between people. -Alfred Kadushin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the essence of innumerable Biographies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19319]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the essence of innumerable Biographies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876   It is to be acknowledged that many passages in the Bible are abstruse, and not to be easily understood. Yet we are not to omit reading the abstruser texts, which have any appearance of relating to us; but should follow the example of the Blessed Virgin, who understood not several of our Saviour's sayings, but kept them all in her heart. Were we only to learn humility thus, it would be enough; but we shall by degrees come to apprehend far more than we expected, if we diligently compare spiritual things to spiritual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[London is the clearing-house of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25452]]></link><description><![CDATA[London is the clearing-house of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent does not invariably create a desire for change. Other factors have to be present before discontent turns into disaffection. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent does not invariably create a desire for change. Other factors have to be present before discontent turns into disaffection. One of these is a sense of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45489]]></link><description><![CDATA[You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44849]]></link><description><![CDATA[No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54448]]></link><description><![CDATA[That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People counters at the Community Center recorded one million that came through the doors last fiscal year; obviously, not all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31106]]></link><description><![CDATA[People counters at the Community Center recorded one million that came through the doors last fiscal year; obviously, not all of them were different. There were 650,000 the year before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54155]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and force a new one that suits them better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. [Lat., Conscientia rectae voluntatis maxima consolatio est rerum incommodarum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes. [Lat., Conscientia rectae voluntatis maxima consolatio est rerum incommodarum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sheep follow sheep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sheep follow sheep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice that we have a lot of people that can contribute in different spots and pick up the slack. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36196]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice that we have a lot of people that can contribute in different spots and pick up the slack. We are not generating a greater volume of shots, but a better quality of shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. [Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. [Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60350]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3683]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always try to balance the light with the heavy -- a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57978]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are thousands of causes for stress, and one antidote to stress is self-expression. That's what happens to me every day. My thoughts get off my chest, down my sleeves and onto my pad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3474]]></link><description><![CDATA[An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath lands hath quarrells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49349]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath lands hath quarrells.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   What is the Christian? Everywhere the man who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Francis Xavier, Apostle of the Indies, Missionary, 1552   What is the Christian? Everywhere the man who, so far as he comprehends Jesus Christ, so far as he can get any knowledge of Him, is His servant -- the man who makes Christ a teacher of his intelligence and the guide of his soul -- the man who obeys Christ as far as he has been able to understand him... I would know any man as a Christian, would rejoice to know any man as a Christian, whom Jesus would recognize as a Christian; and Jesus Christ, I am sure, in these old days recognized His followers even if they came after Him with the blindest sight, with the most imperfect recognition and acknowledgment of what He was and of what He could do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No law reaches it, but all right- minded people observe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11573]]></link><description><![CDATA[No law reaches it, but all right- minded people observe it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55847]]></link><description><![CDATA[By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not quite where we want to be right now. But we'll give them everything we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36105]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not quite where we want to be right now. But we'll give them everything we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In silence, . . . Steals on soft-handed Charity,  Tempering her gifts, that seem so free,   By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5702]]></link><description><![CDATA[In silence, . . . Steals on soft-handed Charity,  Tempering her gifts, that seem so free,   By time and place,    Till not a woe the bleak world see,     But finds her grace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58195]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42314]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dick has to be one of the greatest guys there is. If (the Bills) take him, I know they're going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dick has to be one of the greatest guys there is. If (the Bills) take him, I know they're going to get a real honest, hard-working, and sincere coach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which othermen have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which othermen have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm thrilled to be adding Shawn to our administrative team. He brings a lot to the table. ... Being a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29866]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm thrilled to be adding Shawn to our administrative team. He brings a lot to the table. ... Being a native of Wisconsin, he knows our state. We are getting a very well-rounded and bright person to join our staff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet;  'Twas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was brown with a golden gloss, Janette, It was finer than silk of the floss, my pet;  'Twas a beautiful mist falling down to your wrist,   'Twas a thing to be braided, and jewelled, and kissed--    'Twas the loveliest hair in the world, my pet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia- that is, nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44288]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22650]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is the sleep of the mind. [Fr., L'indolence est le sommeil des esprits.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak of the gods as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak of the gods as they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius,magic, and power in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you can do, or dream you can begin it. Boldness has genius,magic, and power in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21389</guid></item></channel></rss>