<?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[General wisdom is not a threat to the gospel, because everything good traces to God. God is merciful and kind; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6547]]></link><description><![CDATA[General wisdom is not a threat to the gospel, because everything good traces to God. God is merciful and kind; he bestows truth, as well as rain and sunshine, upon the just and the unjust. Christ is the "true light that enlightens every man". This bestowal should inspire feelings of joy, not resentment, in the heart of a Christian. Aristotle said many wise things about logic, Confucius many wise things about morals. When a Christian attacks general wisdom in the name of the gospel, the natural man will attack the gospel in the name of general wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity gives to every man his true honor. [Lat., Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17499]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what youhave given away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22319]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what youhave given away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Send them into everlasting Coventry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Send them into everlasting Coventry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure... they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52239]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three-legged stool of understanding is held up by history, languages, and mathematics. Equipped with these three you can learn anything you want to learn. But if you lack any one of them you are just another ignorant peasant with dung on your boots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune helps the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune helps the brave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61571]]></link><description><![CDATA[She is but half a wife that is not, nor is capable of being, a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.... We have not the power to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48313]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.... We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is going to be an interesting challenge for both sides, playing the same opponent in seven consecutive games. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41975]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is going to be an interesting challenge for both sides, playing the same opponent in seven consecutive games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13310]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't have to protect the environment, the Second Coming is at hand]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.rnRead more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/abraham_lincoln_2.html#0P2cCWMdWjEvdFdb.99rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the sun comes up, I have morals again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43142]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the sun comes up, I have morals again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key to faith is what we are willing to sacrifice to obtain it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have to be sad at funerals, which is easy, so they get happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that can stay obtaines. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49327]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that can stay obtaines.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25214]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard: Why can't we all be like that bird? -Edward H. Richards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24947]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566   Christianity is a battle, not a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566   Christianity is a battle, not a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15095]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper:  Some liken it to climbing up a hill,   Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour:    For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill,     And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper,"      To have, when the original is dust,       A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is what you know you are, not what others think you have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life sofull of meaningful things that you'll hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make food a very incidental part of your life by filling your life sofull of meaningful things that you'll hardly have time to think aboutfood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn't. It's like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16649]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know why people think that somehow the First Amendment applies to network television. It doesn't. It's like the way free speech doesn't apply at work. You can't just walk into your boss' office and say 'you're a fuckface and I'm gonna go back to work now.' No, you're not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a man of the people, so this is a wonderful tribute; he loved America and it's fitting that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38044]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a man of the people, so this is a wonderful tribute; he loved America and it's fitting that the country recognizes him as a national treasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill our every need, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us keep Christmas beautiful Without a thought of greed, That it might live forevermore To fill our every need, That it shall not be just a day, But last a lifetime through, The miracle of Christmastime That brings God close to you]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sending e-mail helps to cut down the cost of First Friday, things like advertising and flyers. We're looking at $500 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sending e-mail helps to cut down the cost of First Friday, things like advertising and flyers. We're looking at $500 to 600 per month.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never have anything you don't respect, including lot's of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63219]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never have anything you don't respect, including lot's of money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobodyelse has thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobodyelse has thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17454]]></link><description><![CDATA[One rose says more than the dozen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac.It's great for the first two weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac.It's great for the first two weeks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth, what man's age is like to be, doth show; We may our ends by our beginnings know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14036]]></link><description><![CDATA[I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51225]]></link><description><![CDATA[What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UPS now flies to more points in China than any other U.S. airline, freight or passenger. These new flights are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32890]]></link><description><![CDATA[UPS now flies to more points in China than any other U.S. airline, freight or passenger. These new flights are part of our strategy to expand our service options, stay ahead of customer needs and solidify our position as the leader in the world's fastest growing market.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a real risk that this motion could succeed ... and we need to deal with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40538]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a real risk that this motion could succeed ... and we need to deal with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath no good trade, it is to his losse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of remedies is a beefsteak Against sea-sickness; try it, sir, before  You sneer, and I assure you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56233]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of remedies is a beefsteak Against sea-sickness; try it, sir, before  You sneer, and I assure you this is true,   For I have found it answer--so may you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56233</guid></item></channel></rss>