<?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 Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47417]]></link><description><![CDATA[..the Bill of Rights does not come from the people and is not subject to change by majorities. It comes from the nature of things. It declares the inalienable rights of man not only against all government but also against the people collectively.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26236]]></link><description><![CDATA[What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47340]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9634]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth and oyle are ever above. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50024]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth and oyle are ever above.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty, equality, fraternity. [Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty, equality, fraternity. [Fr., Liberte, egalite, fraternite.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23620]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550   To be prayerless is to be without God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Benedict of Nursia, Father of Western Monasticism, c.550   To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night  Whiter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night  Whiter than new snow upon a raven's back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Queen, who sat With lips severely placid felt the knot  Climb in her throat, and with her feet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51716]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Queen, who sat With lips severely placid felt the knot  Climb in her throat, and with her feet unseen   Crushed the wild passion out against the floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30722]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17495]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11045]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The table robbes more then a thiefe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The table robbes more then a thiefe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is often the introduction to pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is often the introduction to pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independant, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to it’s liberty and interests by the most lasting bands]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caesar's wife should be above suspicion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caesar's wife should be above suspicion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven't planted]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a distinct possibility that the local taxpayer will get overwhelmed by the number of referendums. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38762]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a distinct possibility that the local taxpayer will get overwhelmed by the number of referendums.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We wanted to have a fast start, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32360]]></link><description><![CDATA[We wanted to have a fast start,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27590]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw,  Like not to go off hungry, leaving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw,  Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love   To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44973]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55002]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13054]]></link><description><![CDATA[In common things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Reverend are ever before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Reverend are ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal. In less than 24 hours, we completely filled our (greeting) time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal. In less than 24 hours, we completely filled our (greeting) time slots at PTIA and gave out our entire supply of posters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46445]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can say any fool thing to a dog, and the dog will give you this look that says, `My God, you're RIGHT! I NEVER would've thought of that!']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55561]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. He hates our sacred nation, and he rails, Even there where merchants most do congregate. -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't get any offense going. I thought we did a decent job of getting some good shots, but you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32450]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't get any offense going. I thought we did a decent job of getting some good shots, but you have to be able to finish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed.  Speak truly, and each word of thine   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed.  Speak truly, and each word of thine   Shall be a fruitful seed.    Live truly, and thy life shall be     A great and noble creed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people think that meditation takes time away from physicalaccomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people,however, find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people think that meditation takes time away from physicalaccomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people,however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54032]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/820]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us; it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dame Nature's minstrels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dame Nature's minstrels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases,  Than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15097]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Fame!--if I e'er took delight in thy praises, 'Twas less for the sake of thy high-sounding phrases,  Than to see the bright eyes of the dear one discover   She thought that I was not unworthy to love her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269 I see the wrong that round me lies,  I feel the guilt within; I hear, with groan and travail-cries,  The world confess its sin. Yet, in the maddening maze of things,  And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed trust my spirit clings  I know that God is good!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56581]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [Chinese Labour in South Africa] could not, in the opinion of His Majesty's Government, be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stream is always purer at its source. [Fr., Les choses valent toujours mieux dans leur source.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19480]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a "peace conference," you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our sincere wish that the Northern Ireland institutions be restored as soon as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30123]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our sincere wish that the Northern Ireland institutions be restored as soon as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10312</guid></item></channel></rss>