<?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[Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47409]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.   - James Anthony Froude, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crime is not punished as an offense against God, but as prejudicial to society.   - James Anthony Froude,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! Here's one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62307]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like your way of conditioning and contracting with the saints. Do this and I'll do that! Here's one for t'other. Save me and I'll give you a taper or go on a pilgrimage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But innocence has nothing to dread. [Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20959]]></link><description><![CDATA[But innocence has nothing to dread. [Fr., Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien a redouter.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who suffers before it is necessary,suffers more than isnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21264]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who suffers before it is necessary,suffers more than isnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuals have rights and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't think he would play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't think he would play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revere has won a couple of games in a row. Both teams will play really hard. This game will have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revere has won a couple of games in a row. Both teams will play really hard. This game will have an intense atmosphere, and it will test our mettle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't do drugs. I am drugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65320]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't do drugs. I am drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27876]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27876</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[Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste is slow. [Lat., Festinatio tarda est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24288]]></link><description><![CDATA[A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this is going do extremely well. They'll pack the place, I don't think there is any doubt about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this is going do extremely well. They'll pack the place, I don't think there is any doubt about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9620]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very beautiful country and it has some of the Arab world's most interesting, best preserved, medieval ruins. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38599]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very beautiful country and it has some of the Arab world's most interesting, best preserved, medieval ruins. And it's also got a living culture which is exotic in the true sense of the word,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy; Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy; Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the sea intoning, Only the wainscot-mouse,  Only the wild wind moaning   Over the lonely house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the sea intoning, Only the wainscot-mouse,  Only the wild wind moaning   Over the lonely house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10999]]></link><description><![CDATA[We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16491]]></link><description><![CDATA[To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2585]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O how full of briars is this working-day world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51228]]></link><description><![CDATA[O how full of briars is this working-day world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3099]]></link><description><![CDATA[An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off; it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart-sick faintness of the hope delayed!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will be able to actually walk where the villagers walked and explore the mound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33879]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will be able to actually walk where the villagers walked and explore the mound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1735]]></link><description><![CDATA[In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42834]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14773]]></link><description><![CDATA[All decent people live beyond their incomes; those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's; a few gifted individuals manage to do both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are not in business to be popular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1284]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are not in business to be popular.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I defended him [John McCain] in those hearings when some stupid-ass right-wing idiot accused him of being the Manchurian Candidate, that somehow the Vietnamese had brainwashed him. This is the most unbelievably callous, degrading, nonsensical piece of crap I've ever heard in my life, coming from some chicken hawk out there, to hurl at somebody who spent as long as he did being tortured and standing up for his country, and caring about it as much as he did. It's incredible that people would behave like that, absolutely stunning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liars need to have good memories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liars need to have good memories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me;  Hatching my tender heart so long, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me;  Hatching my tender heart so long,   Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played well for our first game. We're still trying to move them around and get them comfortable with each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42129]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played well for our first game. We're still trying to move them around and get them comfortable with each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66780]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two great days in a person\'s life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16287]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others. He told us about Christ's disciples being fishermen, and we were to assume, as my brother and I did, that all first-class fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fishermen and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-growthamong those who don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22396]]></link><description><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-growthamong those who don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good wine needs no bush. -As You Like It. Epilogue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good wine needs no bush. -As You Like It. Epilogue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64486]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have courage for whatever comes in life - everything lies in that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52110]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The Lord afflicts us at times; but it is always a thousand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066   The Lord afflicts us at times; but it is always a thousand times less than we deserve, and much less than many of our fellow-creatures are suffering around us. Let us therefore pray for grace to be humble, thankful, and patient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60993</guid></item></channel></rss>