<?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[Basically I am interrested in friendship, sex, and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically I am interrested in friendship, sex, and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is consistent with the psyche of Maine. We all feel so overwhelmed by these government entities and in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41993]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is consistent with the psyche of Maine. We all feel so overwhelmed by these government entities and in the process we?re so awful small. This gives us a chance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was very impressive of Van Heeswijk. He bridged back to the peloton all by himself after his puncture and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40096]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was very impressive of Van Heeswijk. He bridged back to the peloton all by himself after his puncture and still had strength left over for the sprint, even though the pace was high towards the end of the stage. Christian Vande Velde crashed during the final descent, but he wasn't seriously hurt and managed to finish in the main peloton, while Linus Gerdemann lost some time because he's suffering from a back ache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Audemus jura nostra defendere [We dare defend our rights] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Audemus jura nostra defendere [We dare defend our rights]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18831]]></link><description><![CDATA[In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One\'s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I\'ll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66851]]></link><description><![CDATA[One\'s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I\'ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who\'ll be with me will be my family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19108]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We say little if not egged on by vanity. [Fr., On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60380]]></link><description><![CDATA[We say little if not egged on by vanity. [Fr., On parle peu quand la vanite ne fait pas parler.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain;  But the Lord is risen to-day, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13146]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain;  But the Lord is risen to-day,   Christ hath brought us life again,    Wherefore let us all rejoice,     Singing loud, with cheerful voice,      Hallelujah!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none.  My tongue and soul ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me be cruel, not unnatural; I will speak daggers to her, but use none.  My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites:   How in my words somever she be shent,    To give them seals never, my soul, consent!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art, as far as it is able, follow nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. [It., L'arte vostra quella, quanto puote,  Seque, come il maestro fa il discente;   Si che vostr'arte a Dio quasi e nipote.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more communication within smaller organizations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40711]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more communication within smaller organizations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, they're selling the foundation to pay for the mortgage. These lands really belong to future generations and shouldn't be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, they're selling the foundation to pay for the mortgage. These lands really belong to future generations and shouldn't be sold to the highest bidder. There's no reason why the world's biggest economic power needs to sell parkland to make ends meet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not just a private right - but one belonging to legislators as part of the separation of powers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32889]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not just a private right - but one belonging to legislators as part of the separation of powers and as part of the essential functions of government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Atomic power will make electricity too cheap to meter ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Atomic power will make electricity too cheap to meter]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9882]]></link><description><![CDATA[In complex situations, we may rely too heavily on planning and forecasting and underestimate the importance of random factors in the environment. That reliance can also lead to delusions of control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36987]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odd instances of strange coincidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Odd instances of strange coincidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is the literature of the illiterate, the culture of the low-brow, the wealth of the poor, the privilage of the underprivilaged, the exclusive club of the excluded masses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you become senile, you won't know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1866]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you become senile, you won't know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature... She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,  Has lived so long, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46576]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis strange how like a very dunce, Man, with his bumps upon his sconce,  Has lived so long, and yet no knowledge he   Has had, till lately, of Phrenology--    A science that by simple dint of     Head-combing he should find a hint of,      When scratching o'er those little pole-hills       The faculties throw up like mole hills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16566]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness consists more in the small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There has been a tendency of late to interpret alienation from faith in intellectual rather than experiential terms. Academically oriented ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6765]]></link><description><![CDATA[There has been a tendency of late to interpret alienation from faith in intellectual rather than experiential terms. Academically oriented Christians especially tend to think that the barriers to faith should be removed by repackaging the content of the message in a way more congenial to the modern outlook. But it is quite possible that we are dealing not so much with a failure of intellect as with an alienation from the experiential roots of Christianity itself so amply attested in the New Testament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My thoughts ran a wool-gathering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59207]]></link><description><![CDATA[My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5163]]></link><description><![CDATA[In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conscience without God is like a court without a judge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9813]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tithe, and be rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tithe, and be rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For dear is the Emerald Isle of the ocean, Whose daughters are fair as the foam of the wave,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23055]]></link><description><![CDATA[For dear is the Emerald Isle of the ocean, Whose daughters are fair as the foam of the wave,  Whose sons unaccustom'd to rebel commotion,   Tho' joyous, are sober--tho' peaceful, are brave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot see the mountain near ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60842]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot see the mountain near]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57412]]></link><description><![CDATA[His spiritual life has been exaggerated by a chronic attack of mental gallstones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47714]]></link><description><![CDATA[True popularity is not the popularity which is followed after, but the popularity which follows after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conflict is the beginning of consciousness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5567]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is easy to the unwilling. -Thomas Fuller.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44390]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little girl can be sweeter (and badder) oftener than anyone else in the world. She can jitter around, and stomp, and make funny noises that frazzle your nerves . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47319]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirits run riot in youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirits run riot in youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not mightbut lightlit Maccabees'lampthrough the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not mightbut lightlit Maccabees'lampthrough the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It still amazes me how many millions goes to discovering another star in the galaxies when, for all we know, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14760]]></link><description><![CDATA[It still amazes me how many millions goes to discovering another star in the galaxies when, for all we know, we are still sitting on top of another undiscovered world beneath out feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14760</guid></item></channel></rss>