<?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[Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really believe that the humanities has that power. Here in Washington, D.C., where there are so many humanities resources ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39231]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really believe that the humanities has that power. Here in Washington, D.C., where there are so many humanities resources and so many people with great ideas . . . this humanities council should be in the business of supporting and encouraging those ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you predict anything? I wouldn't have predicted this. It certainly tests your mettle, ... I'm very pleased with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33479]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you predict anything? I wouldn't have predicted this. It certainly tests your mettle, ... I'm very pleased with the manner in which everybody has responded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will not be a cause for panic. It will not be a cause for people to stop hunting. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28821]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will not be a cause for panic. It will not be a cause for people to stop hunting. It will not be a cause for people to stop eating poultry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56963]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil. It behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason,  In such a state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason,  In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They go swimming, canoeing, horseback riding, they make ice cream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31132]]></link><description><![CDATA[They go swimming, canoeing, horseback riding, they make ice cream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890   Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbors, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them -- that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven -- but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. [Lat., Principiis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. [Lat., Principiis obsta: sero medicina paratur,  Cum mala per longas convaluere moras.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[and everything after that is just cost savings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34191]]></link><description><![CDATA[and everything after that is just cost savings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is going down: the price of the dollar, the price of stocks, the price of bonds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is going down: the price of the dollar, the price of stocks, the price of bonds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've learned a great deal about music through my experiences. I've learned of its sanctity. Of its holiness. I've learned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19587]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've learned a great deal about music through my experiences. I've learned of its sanctity. Of its holiness. I've learned that music is a very powerful force, not to be trivialized or watered down or maufactured into soul-less, mindless drivel. Selling out to the corporate butcher would secure me a nice little place in hell, I knew. So I determined early on to make it on my own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56318]]></link><description><![CDATA[An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that can never be filled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11209]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of worldliness is exclusion of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a chance to sit and watch the press from the bench, so when I got the chance to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29738]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a chance to sit and watch the press from the bench, so when I got the chance to go in, I had an idea of what I could do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was incredible how strong the results were. The only things they have on their minds are guns, bullets, death ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41960]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was incredible how strong the results were. The only things they have on their minds are guns, bullets, death and a fear of the US occupation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me the country that has no strikes and I'll show you the country in which there is no liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course  Yea, rags most beggarly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course  Yea, rags most beggarly, they clothe the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we  Will drink to him, whate'er he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15595]]></link><description><![CDATA[We keep the day. With festal cheer, With books and music, surely we  Will drink to him, whate'er he be,   And sing the songs he loved to hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22233]]></link><description><![CDATA[What every man needs, regardless of his job or the kind of work he is doing, is a vision of what his place is and may be. He needs an objective and a purpose. He needs a feeling and a belief that he has some worthwhile thing to do. What this is no one can tell him. It must be his own creation. Its success will be measured by the nature of his vision, what he has done to equip himself, and how well he has performed along the line of its development.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . surpass in atrocity any tenets that have ever been admitted into any pagan creed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportune times for speaking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportune times for speaking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.  O, that that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.  O, that that earth which kept the world in awe   Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You Are My Sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35481]]></link><description><![CDATA[You Are My Sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You won't see a lot of helicopters or concrete trucks this year, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33928]]></link><description><![CDATA[You won't see a lot of helicopters or concrete trucks this year,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is why we will end the hunger strike, but it should not be forgotten that it was a warning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28436]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is why we will end the hunger strike, but it should not be forgotten that it was a warning to those who do not abide by law and justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Love Lucy was never just a title! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33528]]></link><description><![CDATA[I Love Lucy was never just a title!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19049]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wounded heart can with difficulty be cured. [Ger., Doch ein gekranktes Herz erholt sich schwer.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. [Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call a fig a fig, and a skiff a skiff. [Lat., Ficum vocamus ficum, et scapham scapham.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democrats are the only reason to vote for Republicans]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27625]]></link><description><![CDATA[To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have written to them and asked them for statements. If I need to call them (to testify), I will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38436]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have written to them and asked them for statements. If I need to call them (to testify), I will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13987]]></link><description><![CDATA[We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent a life we've created ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit but us? Who can change it, anytime we wish, but us?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The same goes for the sausage. I buy it freshly ground and seasonedÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âbut with absolutely no unwanted preservatives addedÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âfrom a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31136]]></link><description><![CDATA[The same goes for the sausage. I buy it freshly ground and seasonedÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âbut with absolutely no unwanted preservatives addedÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âfrom a local butcher shop, and freeze it (three-quarters of a pound per container) in pint cartons.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor "royal road," to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38358]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no short cut, nor "royal road," to the attainment of medical knowledge. The path which we have to pursue is long, difficult, and unsafe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing,  Sleep with smile the sweeter for   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing,  Sleep with smile the sweeter for   That you dropped away in!    On your curls' full roundness stand     Golden lights serenely--      One cheek, pushed out by the hand,       Folds the dimple inly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42753</guid></item></channel></rss>