<?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[No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59955]]></link><description><![CDATA[No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With evil omens from the harbour sails The ill-fated ship that worthless Arnold bears;  God of the southern winds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59643]]></link><description><![CDATA[With evil omens from the harbour sails The ill-fated ship that worthless Arnold bears;  God of the southern winds, call up thy gales,   And whistle in rude fury round his ears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a design flaw, ... A little flaw, but they latched on to it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38233]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a design flaw, ... A little flaw, but they latched on to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/652]]></link><description><![CDATA[To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and heart of the child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sweetest of all sounds is praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sweetest of all sounds is praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5820]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'd rather have kids there that are going to do what you ask them to do, even if they don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33377]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'd rather have kids there that are going to do what you ask them to do, even if they don't have the kind of talent as your star players. It wasn't hard to let some of our better players go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60350]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5810]]></link><description><![CDATA[To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9706]]></link><description><![CDATA[If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou know'st, great son, The end of war's uncertain, but this certain,  That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou know'st, great son, The end of war's uncertain, but this certain,  That, if thou conquer Rome, the benefit   Which thou shalt thereby reap is such a name    Whose repetition will be dogged with curses,     Whose chronicle thus writ: 'The man was noble,      But with his last attempt he wiped it out,       Destroyed his country; and his name remains        To th' ensuing age abhorred,' Speak to me son.         Thou hast affected the fine strains of honor,          To imitate the graces of the gods;           To tear with thunder the wide cheeks o' th' air,            And yet to change thy sulphur with a bolt             That should rive an oak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One thing you can't recycle is wasted time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28031]]></link><description><![CDATA[One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church is not a tribe for the improvement in holiness of people who think it would be pleasant to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7857]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church is not a tribe for the improvement in holiness of people who think it would be pleasant to be holy, a means to the integration of character for those who cannot bear their conflicts. It is a statement of the divine intention for humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions ... These are ingredients for catastrophe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36805]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions ... These are ingredients for catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5607]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5607</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. [Lat., Haud igitur ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. [Lat., Haud igitur redit ad Nihilum res ulla, sed omnes  Discidio redeunt in corpora materiai.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would hang us, every mother's son. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55517]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would hang us, every mother's son. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19071]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60302]]></link><description><![CDATA[The standard that a society should actually embody its own professed principles is a utopian one, in the sense that moral principles contradict the way things really are --- and always will be. How things really are --- and always will be --- is neither all-evil nor all-good but deficient, inconsistent, inferior. Principles invite us to do something about the morass of contradictions in which we function morally. Principles invite us to clean up our act; to become intolerant of moral laxity and compromise and cowardice and the turning away from what is upsetting: that secret gnawing of the heart that tells us that what we are doing is not right, and so counsels us that we'd be better off just not thinking about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou said'st--O, it comes o'er my memory As doth the raven o'er the infected house,  Boding to all!--He had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou said'st--O, it comes o'er my memory As doth the raven o'er the infected house,  Boding to all!--He had my handkerchief.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27755]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person that knows you for who you are exactly, a person that accepts what you have become and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62881]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person that knows you for who you are exactly, a person that accepts what you have become and never judges you, and allows for you to grow and helps you along the way is a friend  that you should keep around for a lifetime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34120]]></link><description><![CDATA[How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this country, and that much of the margarine, and cooking oil, and all the other things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This should not have been reported as an in kind contribution and it's unfortunate that these members put the party ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30949]]></link><description><![CDATA[This should not have been reported as an in kind contribution and it's unfortunate that these members put the party in this situation,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18649]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14141]]></link><description><![CDATA[An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43791]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11919]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've negotiated long and hard with both players. We'll see what develops but I'm not sure we have anything to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35899]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've negotiated long and hard with both players. We'll see what develops but I'm not sure we have anything to talk about at this point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We participated in an exhaustive research process to provide the services the everyone is looking for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We participated in an exhaustive research process to provide the services the everyone is looking for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18397]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis thus the mercury of man is fix'd, Strong grows the virtue with his nature mix'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28763]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  As a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 Continuing a Lenten series on prayer:  As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy has failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. It is the only power in the world that seems to overcome the so-called "laws of nature"; the occasions on which prayer has dramatically done this have been termed "miracles". But a constant, quieter miracle takes place hourly in the hearts of men and women who have discovered that prayer supplies them with a steady flow of sustaining power in their daily lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average person thinks he isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average person thinks he isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's metal more attractive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's metal more attractive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66844]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air,  His form and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57147]]></link><description><![CDATA[He stands erect; his slouch becomes a walk; He steps right onward, martial in his air,  His form and movement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1694]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America—and change soon. We must help that change to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34435]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter nights were made for warm snuggles and warmer hearts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter nights were made for warm snuggles and warmer hearts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the rate of gain in corporate profits slows, even though the economy is booming, productivity is slowing and wages ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40703]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the rate of gain in corporate profits slows, even though the economy is booming, productivity is slowing and wages are going up, so the market will feel worse -- but people will be feeling better,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were so proud of their actions that they showed off their blood-splattered shoes they were wearing and treated his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33277]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were so proud of their actions that they showed off their blood-splattered shoes they were wearing and treated his broken lifeless body as their trophy, parading friends through the woods to look at it. They listened as he cried out for help and begged him to stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33277</guid></item></channel></rss>