<?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[It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52341]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is one great art of conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is one great art of conversation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand  The Thing became a trumpet; whence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4344]]></link><description><![CDATA[And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand  The Thing became a trumpet; whence he blew   Soul-animating strains--alas! too few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes."N.B.: A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757: "By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes. - Battle of Bunker Hill, 1775.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It fits us therefore ripely Our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25409]]></link><description><![CDATA[It fits us therefore ripely Our chariots and our horsemen be in readiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22789]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion is a mental picture seen through an imaginary keyhole ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion is a mental picture seen through an imaginary keyhole]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed thecomfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22704]]></link><description><![CDATA[No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed thecomfortable. on Eleanor Roosevelt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just get him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29446]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just get him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rising blushes, which her cheek o'er-spread, Are opening roses in the lily's bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4379]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rising blushes, which her cheek o'er-spread, Are opening roses in the lily's bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688   Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I bought a doughnut and they gave me a receipt for the doughtnut... I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I give you money and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I can't imagine a scenario that I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut. To some skeptical friend, 'Don't even act like I didn't get that doughnut, I've got the documentation right here... It's in my file at home. ...Under "D".']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand;  Ring out the darkness of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand;  Ring out the darkness of the land;   Ring in the Christ that is to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Boston man is the east wind made flesh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4778]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than the arrival ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8924]]></link><description><![CDATA[The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than the arrival of twenty asses laden with drugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What else is the meaning of our present chaos, of humanity in sorrow, but this: that contemporary man is tried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6694]]></link><description><![CDATA[What else is the meaning of our present chaos, of humanity in sorrow, but this: that contemporary man is tried before the bar of the Eternal, and found wanting? Nor can any nation survive, or re-establish lasting peace, if it rests on those foundations on which contemporary nations have been built, our own included. What are those crumbling foundations? Conceit, self-will, denial of discipline, self-expressionism, secularism, this worldliness, greed, entrenched privilege, defiance of God's desire. On base absurdities have we built. Have we now moral courage to face our common sin, or are we content to trust in one form of armed wickedness to overcome the evils of another form of the same mad folly? Merely by smashing our enemies we shall not remake the world. By Beelzebub no devils are cast out... (Continued tomorrow).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links  Both Goddesses and Gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lay ye down the golden chain From Heaven, and pull at its inferior links  Both Goddesses and Gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity sees the need not the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity sees the need not the cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're always looking for a way to enhance service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33428]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're always looking for a way to enhance service.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part,  I ask not proud Philosophy   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part,  I ask not proud Philosophy   To teach me what thou art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big Baby pushed me out of the lane. I didn't do what I was supposed to do. I missed shots. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big Baby pushed me out of the lane. I didn't do what I was supposed to do. I missed shots. I tried to do other things, like rebound and block shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18688]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I verily, absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/139]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I verily, absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some high-growth assets out there that we can purchase and we can purchase using the currency that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40651]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some high-growth assets out there that we can purchase and we can purchase using the currency that we have at a reasonably high multiple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43476]]></link><description><![CDATA[After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20946]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a real go-getter. He's got a lot of energy and strong beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41213]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a real go-getter. He's got a lot of energy and strong beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolution is not a dinner party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolution is not a dinner party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47308]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15730]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is your mind that matters economically, as much or more than your mouth or hands. In the long run, the most important economic effect of population size and growth is the contribution of additional people to our stock of useful knowledge. And this contribution is large enough in the long run to overcome all the costs of population growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10473]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63652]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mind conscious of innocence laughs at the lies of rumor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not. [Lat., Tam deest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42746]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser is as much in want of what he has, as of what he has not. [Lat., Tam deest avaro quod habet, quam quod non habet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3079]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At least in a food-and-sustenance sense, we've always taken what we put into our bodies in a fairly serious light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32463]]></link><description><![CDATA[At least in a food-and-sustenance sense, we've always taken what we put into our bodies in a fairly serious light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then they turn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are like fine wine. They all start out fresh, fruity and intoxicating to the mind and then they turn full-bodied with age until they go sour and vinegary and give you a headache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I really need to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding Religion is kind of like understanding a manual in German. I know it's important and I really need to figure it out, but it's just not happening!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All complaine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49098]]></link><description><![CDATA[All complaine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole musical landscape is being organized through the choreography. It was as if the dancers themselves became my score. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole musical landscape is being organized through the choreography. It was as if the dancers themselves became my score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Toward no crimes have men shown themselves so cold- bloodedly cruel as in punishing differences of belief]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pittifull looke askes enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49067]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pittifull looke askes enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41259]]></link><description><![CDATA[I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54817]]></link><description><![CDATA[It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26219]]></link><description><![CDATA[We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26219</guid></item></channel></rss>