<?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[Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is but what he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52382]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is but what he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of credit decaid, and people that have nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of credit decaid, and people that have nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The meaning of economic freedom is this: that the individual is in a position to choose the way in which he wants to integrate himself into the totality of society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60207]]></link><description><![CDATA[In some sense man is a microcosm of the universe; therefore what man is, is a clue to the universe. We are enfolded in the universe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn your wounds into wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn your wounds into wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43195]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor,  A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave--   The world goes round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57224]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor,  A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave--   The world goes round forever;    I think that life is not too long,     And therefore I determine,      That many people read a song,       Who will not read a sermon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does,and about two years after he thinks he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does,and about two years after he thinks he does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts do not "speak for themselves." They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21923]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben  Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17437]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms. [Ger., Die Gaben  Kommen von oben herab, in ihren eignen Gestalten.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If moisture gets in under the glass (covering), it can completely ruin the painting. They also do fade like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39328]]></link><description><![CDATA[If moisture gets in under the glass (covering), it can completely ruin the painting. They also do fade like a watercolor on paper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had to have this purse. It was shaped like a big saddle with stirrups and everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30143]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had to have this purse. It was shaped like a big saddle with stirrups and everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the police, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39051]]></link><description><![CDATA[They said they'd pass the information on and they'd have it cleaned up. I guess when I called the police, they passed it on to the highway department.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is to know whether Israel wants peace or not, and if it is ready to respect its international ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41310]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is to know whether Israel wants peace or not, and if it is ready to respect its international engagements, notably the roadmap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50625]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Know the road ahead, ask those coming back ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62837]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Know the road ahead, ask those coming back]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That least pleases us which is most urged on us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50890]]></link><description><![CDATA[That least pleases us which is most urged on us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All literature is gossip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25277]]></link><description><![CDATA[All literature is gossip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In an urban forest, there is strength in diversity - in age and in species. Seventy-year-old willow oaks are all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41790]]></link><description><![CDATA[In an urban forest, there is strength in diversity - in age and in species. Seventy-year-old willow oaks are all going to decline within a decade of each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13451]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher education must lead the march back to the fundamentals of human relationships, to the old discovery that is ever new, that man does not live by bread alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36822]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be in prison so long, it's difficult to remember exactly what you did to get there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever I look, I see signs of the commandment to honor one's parents and nowhere of a commandment that calls for the respect of a child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day I work so hardBringin' home my hard earned payTry to love you baby, but you push me away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day I work so hardBringin' home my hard earned payTry to love you baby, but you push me away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:  Uneasy lies the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares:  Uneasy lies the heads of all that rule,   His worst of all whose kingdom is a school.    Supreme he sits; before the awful frown     That binds his brows the boldest eye goes down;      Not more submissive Israel heard and saw       At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4598]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sea returning day by day Restores the world-wide mart.  So let each dweller on the Bay   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4779]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sea returning day by day Restores the world-wide mart.  So let each dweller on the Bay   Fold Boston in his heart    Till these echoes be choked with snows     Or over the town blue ocean flows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She has been living in the States for eight years so this was just a matter of paperwork. She fits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30052]]></link><description><![CDATA[She has been living in the States for eight years so this was just a matter of paperwork. She fits perfectly in the U.S. which makes me realize there's not much difference between people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where wealth and freedom reign, contentment fails, And honour sinks where commerce long prevails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sycophantic behavior exists anywhere you go, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sycophantic behavior exists anywhere you go,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5612]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22857]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think it?s a good step for Afghanistan. Writing off any debt is a help in a country after 30 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think it?s a good step for Afghanistan. Writing off any debt is a help in a country after 30 years of war and devastation. We?re staring from nothing, like a baby taking its first steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very unfair, in my opinion. It's also something we can't control. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37172]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very unfair, in my opinion. It's also something we can't control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53649]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6154</guid></item></channel></rss>