<?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[Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time, Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal;  Ay, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden time, Ere humane stature purged the gentle weal;  Ay, and since too, murders have been performed   Too terrible for the ear. The time has been    That, when the brains were out, the man would die,     And there an end. But now they rise again,      With twenty mortal murders on their crowns,       And push us from our stools. This is more strange        Than such a murder is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34997]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many blunder in business through inability or an unwillingness to adopt new ideas. I have seen many a success turn to failure also, because the thought which should be trained on big things is cluttered up with the burdensome detail of little things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midnight, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Midnight, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise. Thou art wise when thou art poor, without desire of this world, and despisest thyself for the love of Jesus Christ; and expendeth all thy wit and all thy might in His service. Whoso will love wisely, it behoves him to love lasting things lastingly, and passing things passingly; so that his heart be set and fastened on nothing but in God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3584]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. If you can determine what a man thinks you do not have worry about what he will do. If you can make a man believe that he is inferior, you don’t have to compel him to seek an inferior status, he will do so without being told and if you can make a man believe that he is justly an outcast, you don’t have to order him to the back door, he will go to the back door on his own and if there is no back door, the very nature of the man will demand that you build one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It makes me feel good to walk through there and know that some of the things that Negro League players ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36249]]></link><description><![CDATA[It makes me feel good to walk through there and know that some of the things that Negro League players played for has been preserved, and people can go in there, and look at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is shown in your deeds, not in your words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not the name of him who asks you for a bed. It is especially he whose name is a burden to him, who has need of an asylum (room).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and businesse teach eloquence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and businesse teach eloquence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54241]]></link><description><![CDATA[But 'twas a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber  The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59956]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber  The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend   He now dare trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog. [Lat., Plus on apprend a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog. [Lat., Plus on apprend a connaltre l'homme, plus on apprend a estimer le chien.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath  Repented o'er his doom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath  Repented o'er his doom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's in an exhausted state most of the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30017]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's in an exhausted state most of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As she hearsthe confessionsof all riversthose on the shorehear the sea..accepting allshe calls no thingheresy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4014]]></link><description><![CDATA[As she hearsthe confessionsof all riversthose on the shorehear the sea..accepting allshe calls no thingheresy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14412]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/844]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43094]]></link><description><![CDATA["Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leslie has three children, and she takes a lot of pride in that she built her business around her family ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leslie has three children, and she takes a lot of pride in that she built her business around her family life. She was able to get her kids off to the school bus and have her business wrapped by the time they came home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They cast their nets in Galilee, just off the hills of brown; Such happy, simple fisherfolk, before the Lord came ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6657]]></link><description><![CDATA[They cast their nets in Galilee, just off the hills of brown; Such happy, simple fisherfolk, before the Lord came down. Contented, peaceful fishermen, before they ever knew The peace of God that filled their hearts brimful, and broke them too. Young John who trimmed the flapping sail, homeless in Patmos died. Peter, who hauled the teeming net, head-down was crucified. The peace of God, it is no peace, but strife closed in the sod; Yet, brothers, pray for but one thing -- the marvelous peace of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60027]]></link><description><![CDATA[We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56865]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[I]t would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26507]]></link><description><![CDATA[[I]t would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15601]]></link><description><![CDATA[For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had great team strategy and a really good run to make it to the head of the pack. Unfortunately ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42293]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had great team strategy and a really good run to make it to the head of the pack. Unfortunately now it is over for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't recall ever sending anybody out to fight, especially at the drop of the puck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35323]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't recall ever sending anybody out to fight, especially at the drop of the puck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62421]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a lot we lost when we stopped writing letters. You can't reread a phone call.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods /moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former /but no opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, what fools these mortals be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, what fools these mortals be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing from my personal experiences with him would ever have led me to question his integrity, his morals, his honesty. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing from my personal experiences with him would ever have led me to question his integrity, his morals, his honesty. He was always regarded as someone with real integrity and somebody with a keen moral compass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personal power is the ability to take action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personal power is the ability to take action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are like each other they tend to like each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21400]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are like each other they tend to like each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To some lawyers, all facts are created equal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24358]]></link><description><![CDATA[To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we did a great job and our kids wrestled well. My hat's off to San Clemente ---- they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29612]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we did a great job and our kids wrestled well. My hat's off to San Clemente ---- they were banged up and their kids still came out with a lot of heart and put it all on the line. I have a lot of respect for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is best known in not knowing him. [Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17675]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is best known in not knowing him. [Ger., Deus scitur melius nesciendo.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38287]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to get boring before it gets exciting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18489]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65958]]></link><description><![CDATA[How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12228]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66061</guid></item></channel></rss>