<?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 dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dowry, not the wife, is the object of attraction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were trying to take the middle away -- and the post -- and they just had too many guys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37461]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were trying to take the middle away -- and the post -- and they just had too many guys that [could] go to the boards. We just didn't have enough size for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in  At sixty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9790]]></link><description><![CDATA[But at sixteen the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in  At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil,   And find a deuced balance with the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our handicaps depend on how many innings, how many defeats and who the opponent is. It takes a lot more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our handicaps depend on how many innings, how many defeats and who the opponent is. It takes a lot more into account, so it's a lot more competitive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19805]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He'll find a way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25]]></link><description><![CDATA[He'll find a way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proof of the pudding is in the eating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proof of the pudding is in the eating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[sends out a message both to critics and to supporters that he has the backing of America. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28563]]></link><description><![CDATA[sends out a message both to critics and to supporters that he has the backing of America.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2035]]></link><description><![CDATA[The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good and the wise lead quiet lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good and the wise lead quiet lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397  That God loves us in spite of our sin is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397  That God loves us in spite of our sin is the Gospel truth; but this truth can only be shared by words, since good deeds are easily [taken to show] the opposite--that we love God. Faith is not understood when [it is] only demonstrated by life. The more sanctified a life without the verbal witness, the greater the danger of the Christian's goodness getting in the way. Should a person by the grace of God become easier to live with, he doesn't need to call attention to it: it will speak for itself. He can instead seek to balance the reverse effect of the good image by occasionally speaking of the unfavorable realities within, those parts that are still changing. In this way, his external behavior by contrast can point to the power of God, rather than to the effort of man. When we decrease, He can increase, but not until.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52547]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/513]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13459]]></link><description><![CDATA[In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14123]]></link><description><![CDATA[That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. [Lat., Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44571]]></link><description><![CDATA[The noblest character is stained by the addition of pride. [Lat., Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49963]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61506]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hasten to laugh at everything for fear of being obliged to weep at it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before I can have any joy in being alone with God I must have learned not to fear being alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before I can have any joy in being alone with God I must have learned not to fear being alone with myself. Shrinking from any deep self-scrutiny is by no means an uncommon thing, and often goes far to explain the feverish restlessness with which a world-loving heart plunges into perpetual rounds of gaieties and dissipations; they serve as an escape from troublesome questions about the soul, and help to get rid of the clamours of conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They may migrate in a direction, either up or down, depending on which bank becomes the lead on the consumer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35533]]></link><description><![CDATA[They may migrate in a direction, either up or down, depending on which bank becomes the lead on the consumer side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in the English character that few of us can escape its influence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the sword; the one uses it as a means of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the sword; the one uses it as a means of attack, the other as a means of defence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. - Memorial service ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27911]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. - Memorial service for Justice Brandeis, December 21, 1942.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50353]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Pedro:) Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you for out o' question you were born ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27425]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Pedro:) Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best becomes you for out o' question you were born in a merry hour. (Beatrice:) No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46535]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our strength grows out of our weakness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our strength grows out of our weakness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65386]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist Continuing a short series on authenticity:   There, right in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist Continuing a short series on authenticity:   There, right in the middle of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a permanent reminder that medicine is not food. Hence a man's reaction to Monarchy is a kind of test. Monarchy can easily be "debunked"; but watch the faces, mark well the accents, of the debunkers. These are the men whose tap-root in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach -- men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire mere equality, they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider  Of dusty and old titles, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61131]]></link><description><![CDATA[O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider  Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood   The earth when it is sick, and curest the world    O' the pleurisy of people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[France has up to now been backing the wrong horse. ... France will not be able to stop us from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28740]]></link><description><![CDATA[France has up to now been backing the wrong horse. ... France will not be able to stop us from overthrowing the Deby regime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was now a coward on instinct. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was now a coward on instinct. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too much sanity may be madness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too much sanity may be madness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,  Wears yet a precious jewel in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,  Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a good man I have seen go under. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a good man I have seen go under.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47482]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our own time we have seen domination spread over the social landscape to a point where it is beyond all human control. Compared to this stupendous mobilization of materials, of wealth, of human intellect, of human labor for the single goal of domination, all other recent human achievements pale to almost trivial significance. Our art, science, medicine, literature, music and "charitable" acts seem like mere droppings from a table on which gory feasts on the spoils of conquest have engaged the attention of a system whose appetite for rule is utterly unrestrained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death was afraid of him because he had the heart of a lion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29553</guid></item></channel></rss>