<?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 decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53560]]></link><description><![CDATA[A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from gay cities and the ways of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from gay cities and the ways of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is interest in Kuwait and Iran regarding cooperation on the issue of restoration, as the dried marshes adversely affects ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29818]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is interest in Kuwait and Iran regarding cooperation on the issue of restoration, as the dried marshes adversely affects all three of those countries and others on the [Persian] Gulf. Turkey and Syria need to also be engaged to help in the management of the water resources of the entire basin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cunning men deal in generalizations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cunning men deal in generalizations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure's couch is virtue's grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of language is the secret of sympathy and its full charm is possible only to the gentle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap  Of murky buildings: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57182]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap  Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,--   Nature's observatory--whence the dell,    In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell,     May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep      'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap       Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the German people lay down their weapons, the Soviets, according to the agreement between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, would occupy all of East and Southeast Europe along with the greater part of the Reich. An iron curtain would fall over this enormous territory controlled by the Soviet Union, behind which nations would be slaughtered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Within the life of the church, the paths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  Within the life of the church, the paths of the single and the married should not be allowed to diverge. The shared life of the Christian community must become a context in which the differing gifts can be used for each other. There is much still to be learned about this. Are the homes of married Christians an added support for the single? Is the availability of the single Christian put at the disposal of his married friends, for "babysitting" duties and the like. And what is true of the mutual support of married and single needs to be true in a wider way of the care exercised by the married and the single for each other, so that nobody's home life becomes completely cut off from support and help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15687]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have so many contacts all over the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29608]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have so many contacts all over the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Impossible only means that you haven't found the solution yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65603]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just see it as another guy trying to get what I'm trying to get, a win for our team. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36969]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just see it as another guy trying to get what I'm trying to get, a win for our team. I treat it like a battlefield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66474]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more a man hath unity and simplicity in himself, the more things and the deeper things he understandeth; and that without labour, because he receiveth the light of understanding from above. The spirit which is pure, sincere and steadfast, is not distracted though it hath many works to do, because it doth all things to the honour of God, and striveth to be free from all thoughts of self-seeking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every successful man lurks a truly amazed ex-mother-in-law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every successful man lurks a truly amazed ex-mother-in-law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13500]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclin'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plough deep while sluggards sleep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plough deep while sluggards sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus Christ is end of all, and the centre to which all tends. Whoever knows Him knows the reason of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus Christ is end of all, and the centre to which all tends. Whoever knows Him knows the reason of everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26173]]></link><description><![CDATA[The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beasts (Conservatives) had committed suicide to save themselves from slaughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suppliers who receive these awards have provided exceptional performance in Quality to our Toyota plants in Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41694]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suppliers who receive these awards have provided exceptional performance in Quality to our Toyota plants in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's a very, very important part of our program. She really has produced. She has more home runs now than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30021]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's a very, very important part of our program. She really has produced. She has more home runs now than in her whole career. She's using the whole field now, hitting home runs to right field and left field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now is the age of anxiety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now is the age of anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't found anything I haven't liked. I like you're given an opportunity to taste before you go home and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39157]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't found anything I haven't liked. I like you're given an opportunity to taste before you go home and try it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3513]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.   - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised at how many re-enlist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is like the army. Everybody complains, but you'd be surprised at how many re-enlist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN Lo, God, our God has come!   To us a Child is born, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6853]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN Lo, God, our God has come!   To us a Child is born, To us a Son is given;   Bless, bless the blessed morn! O happy, lowly lofty birth, Now God, our God, has come to earth! Rejoice, our God has come!   In love and lowliness; The Son of God has come   The sons of men to bless. God with us now descend to dwell, God in our flesh, Immanuel. Praise ye the word made flesh!   True God, true man is He. Praise ye the Christ of God!   To Him all glory be. Praise ye the Lamb that once was slain, Praise ye the king that comes to reign.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19]]></link><description><![CDATA[We rate ability in men by what they finish, not by what they attempt]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63398]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57096]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest,  Till vernal suns and vernal gales ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet in that bulb, those sapless scales, The lily wraps her silver vest,  Till vernal suns and vernal gales   Shall kiss once more her fragrant breast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is where you learned the lesson... the future is where u apply the lesson. Don't give up in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62855]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is where you learned the lesson... the future is where u apply the lesson. Don't give up in the middle!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder if my mom just got tired of voting for North College Hill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35476]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder if my mom just got tired of voting for North College Hill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4738]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59217]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56157]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who in this world of ours their eyes In March first open shall be wise;  In days of peril ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who in this world of ours their eyes In March first open shall be wise;  In days of peril firm and brave,   And wear a Bloodstone to their grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may becom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is a second self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is a second self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16855</guid></item></channel></rss>