<?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[When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50073]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52851]]></link><description><![CDATA[I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing you can do is get good at being you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing you can do is get good at being you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36267]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip;  Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24012]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fie, fie upon her! There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip;  Nay, her foot speaks. Her wanton spirits look out   At every joint and motive of her body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Long-range planning works best in the short term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Long-range planning works best in the short term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the dog has the temperament, and the owner has the drive, then those are the starting blocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30011]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the dog has the temperament, and the owner has the drive, then those are the starting blocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. -King John. Act iii. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55791]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. -King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love little children too but I don't cut offtheir heads and stick them in vases.http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow108/1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43894]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love little children too but I don't cut offtheir heads and stick them in vases.http://www.egroups.com/messages/nomow108/1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, like charity, begins at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, like charity, begins at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64679]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Using the Internet, a sexual predator can be in any parent's living room without them knowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Using the Internet, a sexual predator can be in any parent's living room without them knowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh, if thou art wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh, if thou art wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit is far more often a shield than a lance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit is far more often a shield than a lance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough,  And something said of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54712]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are, to whom my satire seems too bold; Scarce to wise Peter complaisant enough,  And something said of Chartres much too rough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, minori.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those languages, or we remain mute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows he has enough is rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21545]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows he has enough is rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness comes through doors you didn't even know you left open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17463]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62686]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play has been man's most useful preoccupation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... By purpose, Idon't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you arealways ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21752]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... By purpose, Idon't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you arealways striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you haveof yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you wantto lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A favorite has no friend! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1304]]></link><description><![CDATA[A favorite has no friend!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my nearly 18 months here what I have found is that instead of getting better it may in fact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35307]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my nearly 18 months here what I have found is that instead of getting better it may in fact be worse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man does his best, what else is there? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13642]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man does his best, what else is there?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1646]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennuis, vanish,--all duties even.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the miraclous gifts were so soon withdrawn was not only that faith and holiness were well-nigh lost, but that dry, formal, orthodox men began then to ridicule whatever gifts they had not themselves and to cry them all [down] as evil madness or imposture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a little frustrated because she never should have had to slide. It's a good thing she's our fastest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a little frustrated because she never should have had to slide. It's a good thing she's our fastest runner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9860]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were he now to do so, he would forfeit all credibility. If he now said 'Er, I'm not sure I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were he now to do so, he would forfeit all credibility. If he now said 'Er, I'm not sure I was right to do what I've done,' I think people would turn on him. He's set his hand to this particular plough, he's got to complete the furrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 If I lay waste and wither up with doubt The blessed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury, 690 If I lay waste and wither up with doubt The blessed fields of heaven where once my Faith possessed itself serenely safe from death; If I deny things past finding out; Or if I orphan my own soul from One That seemed a Father, and make void the place Within me where He dwelt in Power and Grace, What do I gain by what I have undone?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the most part, I think they've been pretty good. The crew we had the first and second nights were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41140]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the most part, I think they've been pretty good. The crew we had the first and second nights were professional-looking. There were a few ball-strike calls I didn't like, but that's going to happen in the big leagues or anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60092]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell;  All the other sounds we hear,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark, how chimes the passing bell! There's no music to a knell;  All the other sounds we hear,   Flatter, and but cheat our ear.    This doth put us still in mind     That our flesh must be resigned,      And, a general silence made,       The world be muffled in a shade.        [Orpheus' lute, as poets tell,         Was but moral of this bell,          And the captive soul was she,           Which they called Eurydice,            Rescued by our holy groan,             A loud echo to this tone.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25311]]></link><description><![CDATA[In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hippies are lots of fun, as long as they are not involved in commerce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hippies are lots of fun, as long as they are not involved in commerce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew what we had to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37367]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew what we had to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children need models rather than critics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children need models rather than critics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blest to-day is as completely so, As who began a thousand years ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4320</guid></item></channel></rss>