<?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[The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dick, Jane, and Spot primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have, in some ways, a tender feeling toward them, so I think it's for the best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2847]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have to ask, you can't afford it! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5034]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have to ask, you can't afford it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.  He only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47763]]></link><description><![CDATA[My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.  He only says, "Good fences make good neighbors."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66164]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who educate children well are more to be honored than parents, for these only gave life, those the art of living well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57461]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8528]]></link><description><![CDATA[C. S. Lewis Centennial  Holding [the Way of Affirmation], we see that every created thing is, in its degree, an image of God, and the ordinate and faithful appreciation of that thing a clue, which, truly followed, will lead back to Him. Holding [the Way of Rejection], we see that every created thing, the highest devotion to moral duty, the purest conjugal love, the saint and the seraph, is no more than an image; that every one of them, followed for its own sake and isolated from its source, becomes an idol whose service is damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42272]]></link><description><![CDATA[He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics is written for mathematicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics is written for mathematicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't seen the new study yet, and we're not in the habit of prejudging these sorts of things. (But) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40393]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't seen the new study yet, and we're not in the habit of prejudging these sorts of things. (But) we haven't seen a reason to doubt Dr. Ramey's work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. [Lat., Les soupcons importuns  Sont d'un second hymen les ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disagreeable suspicions are usually the fruits of a second marriage. [Lat., Les soupcons importuns  Sont d'un second hymen les fruits les plus communs.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor dancer will be disturbed even by the hem of her skirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11008]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor dancer will be disturbed even by the hem of her skirt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The point is that you can't be too greedy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The point is that you can't be too greedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27231]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a bachelor of philosophy from the Antilles refuses to apply for certification as a teacher on the grounds of his color I say that philosophy has never saved anyone. When someone else strives and strains to prove to me that black men are as intelligent as white men I say that intelligence has never saved anyone: and that is true, for, if philosophy and intelligence are invoked to proclaim the equality of men, they have also been employed to justify the extermination of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't expect Taylor to get into the sixth. I thought we would get three or four innings out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't expect Taylor to get into the sixth. I thought we would get three or four innings out of him, but he was cruising for a while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is present by Love alone. By Love alone He is great and glorious. By Love alone He liveth and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6182]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is present by Love alone. By Love alone He is great and glorious. By Love alone He liveth and feeleth in other persons. By Love alone He enjoyeth all the creatures, by Love alone He is pleasing to Himself, by Love alone He is rich and blessed. The Soul is shrivelled up and buried in a grave that does not love. But that which does love wisely and truly is the joy and end of all the world, the King of Heaven, and the Friend of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So let his name through Europe ring! A man of mean estate,  Who dies as firm as Sparta's king, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18251]]></link><description><![CDATA[So let his name through Europe ring! A man of mean estate,  Who dies as firm as Sparta's king,   Because his soul was great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66688]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17376]]></link><description><![CDATA[The composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning by study must be won; 'Twas ne'er entail'd from son to son.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is an endless combination and repetition of a very few laws. She hums the old well-known air through innumerable variations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine is a turne-coate (first a friend, then an enemy).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue of school choice is still alive but vouchers as a means is not a choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue of school choice is still alive but vouchers as a means is not a choice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59649]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drive thy business, let not that drive thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drive thy business, let not that drive thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A-four and a-three and a-two and a-one... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15208]]></link><description><![CDATA[A-four and a-three and a-two and a-one...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16396]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness -- someone else always suffers for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you drawn forth among a world of men To slay the innocent? What is my offense?  Where is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you drawn forth among a world of men To slay the innocent? What is my offense?  Where is the evidence that doth accuse me?   What lawful quest have given their verdict up    Unto the frowning judge? or who pronounced     The bitter sentence of poor Clarence's death      Before I be convict by course of law?       To threaten me with death is most unlawful:        I charge you, as you hope [to have redemption         By Christ's dear blood shed for our grievous sins,]          That you depart, and lay no hands on me.           The deed you undertake is damnable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10514]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and Gentleness is Power.   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and Gentleness is Power.   - Leigh Hunt (James Henry Leigh Hunt),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Bergundy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Bergundy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have marked A thousand blushing apparitions  To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4390]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have marked A thousand blushing apparitions  To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames   In angel whiteness beat away those blushes,    And in her eye there hath appeared a fire     To burn the errors that these princes hold      Against her maiden truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blush is no language: only a dubious flag-signal which may mean either of two contradictories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4378]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blush is no language: only a dubious flag-signal which may mean either of two contradictories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22246]]></link><description><![CDATA[To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it -- who can say this is not greatness?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2520]]></link><description><![CDATA[When angry, count to four. When very angry, swear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61952]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26146]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the time of year finances are on people's mind. And this is the time to think about that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39604]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the time of year finances are on people's mind. And this is the time to think about that and make small changes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sad part is, we voted for him because we believed him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33462]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sad part is, we voted for him because we believed him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The years of slavery are past, The Belgian rejoices once more;  Courage restores to him at last   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The years of slavery are past, The Belgian rejoices once more;  Courage restores to him at last   The rights he held of yore.    Strong and firm his grasp will be--     Keeping the ancient flag unfurled      To fling its message on the watchful world:       For king, for right, for liberty.        [Fr., Apres des siecles d'esclavage,         Le Belge sortant du tombeau,          A reconquis par son courage,           Son nom, ses droits et son drapeau,            Et ta main souveraine et fiere,             Peuple desormais indompte,              Grava sur ta vieille banniere,               Le Roi, la loi, la liberte.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20174]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are so many hungry people that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20174</guid></item></channel></rss>