<?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[Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).   - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).   - Karl Otto von Schonhausen Bismarck,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50639]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have nothing is not poverty. [Lat., Non est paupertas, Nestor, habere nihil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64137]]></link><description><![CDATA[O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/977]]></link><description><![CDATA[To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64860]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope. -Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12750]]></link><description><![CDATA[I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, lots have gone in already, ... If there's civil war, lots more will go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, lots have gone in already, ... If there's civil war, lots more will go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62054]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lend me thy pen To write a word  In the moonlight.   Pierrot, my friend!    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lend me thy pen To write a word  In the moonlight.   Pierrot, my friend!    My candle's out,     I've no more fire;--      For love of God       Open thy door!        [Fr., Au clair de la lune         Mon ami Pierrot,          Prete moi ta plume           Pour ecrire un mot;            Ma chandelle est morte,             Je n'ai plus de feu,              Ouvre moi ta porte,               Pour l'amour de Dieu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you any relation to your brother Marv?(spoken to announcer Steve Albert) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you any relation to your brother Marv?(spoken to announcer Steve Albert)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3388]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pleasant traveling companion helps us on our journey as much as a carriage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51575]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pleasant traveling companion helps us on our journey as much as a carriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66407]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superstition is a senseless fear of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superstition is a senseless fear of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak not of my debts unless you mean to pay them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will you still need me,will you still feed me..When I'm sixty-four? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will you still need me,will you still feed me..When I'm sixty-four?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You led our sons across the haunted flood, Into the Canaan of their high desire--  No milk and honey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57139]]></link><description><![CDATA[You led our sons across the haunted flood, Into the Canaan of their high desire--  No milk and honey there, but tears and blood   Flowed where the hosts of evil trod in fire,    And left a worse than desert where they passed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61044]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms;  Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms;  Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final week of early voting is always the heaviest, and the hotter the race, the heavier the turnout in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final week of early voting is always the heaviest, and the hotter the race, the heavier the turnout in the last few days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890   Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbors, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them -- that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven -- but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him.  ... A. C. McGiffert, A History of Christian Thought  August 21, 2000   At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can't help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad beginnings, bad endings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad beginnings, bad endings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest....]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66204]]></link><description><![CDATA[True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war is just there to get Dad off stage, ... 'Little Women' is not about war, it's not about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41680]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war is just there to get Dad off stage, ... 'Little Women' is not about war, it's not about poverty, it's not about a woman struggling to become a writer in a world dominated by men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23636]]></link><description><![CDATA[The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Georgia's the team to beat. Everybody pretty much acknowledges that, but we're 1-0 against them, and I don't think our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Georgia's the team to beat. Everybody pretty much acknowledges that, but we're 1-0 against them, and I don't think our kids are ready to concede.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am optimistic about the economic recovery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am optimistic about the economic recovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spinsters and the knitters in the sun And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spinsters and the knitters in the sun And the free maids that weave their thread with bones Do use to chant it: it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53869]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.  [Ger., Der Freunde Eifer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The zeal of friends it is that razes me, And not the hate of enemies.  [Ger., Der Freunde Eifer ist's, der mich   Zu Grunde richtet, nicht der Hass der Feinde.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They gave me their name, which was fake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30498]]></link><description><![CDATA[They gave me their name, which was fake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich man in his castle, / The poor man at his gate, / God made them, high or lowly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31242]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich man in his castle, / The poor man at his gate, / God made them, high or lowly, / And ordered their estate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/120]]></link><description><![CDATA[These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today, Abortion...For the pregnant women who don't want their children, give them to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4180]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O sweet September, they first breezes bring the dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, the cool fresh air whence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35618]]></link><description><![CDATA[O sweet September, they first breezes bring the dry leaf's rustle and the squirrel's laughter, the cool fresh air whence health and vigor spring and promise of exceeding joy hereafter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who labours, prays. [Lat., Qui laborat, orat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23918]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who labours, prays. [Lat., Qui laborat, orat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23918</guid></item></channel></rss>