<?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[Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not now either arising from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8535]]></link><description><![CDATA[My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not now either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening towards active assistance, is simply bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears that the level of violence was well below the last election. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28971]]></link><description><![CDATA[It appears that the level of violence was well below the last election.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never utter these words: 'I do not know this, therefore it is false.' One must study to know; know to understand; understand to judge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The assumption that spending more of the taxpayer's money will make things better has survived all kinds of evidence that it has made things worse. The black family- which survived slavery, discrimination, poverty, wars and depressions- began to come apart as the federal government moved in with its well-financed programs to "help.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, please save me from your followers! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47699]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, please save me from your followers!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking men cannot be ruled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking men cannot be ruled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laughter is the closest distance between two people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laughter is the closest distance between two people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bargain is anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3731]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bargain is anything a customer thinks a store is losing money on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56343]]></link><description><![CDATA[My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were a lot of players expecting a special dividend -- myself included -- and that is a bit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38449]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were a lot of players expecting a special dividend -- myself included -- and that is a bit of a disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth was made so various, that the mind of desultory man, studious of change, and pleased with novelty, might be indulged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8789]]></link><description><![CDATA[As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of guys get upset in that situation, ... but he was able to shrug it off. With a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30470]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of guys get upset in that situation, ... but he was able to shrug it off. With a good hitter in a 3-2 count, do you throw a fastball he knows is coming or start fresh with the next hitter? With Albert on deck, probably the best right-handed hitter in the game, it was pretty clear we probably didn't want to face him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lend me thy pen To write a word  In the moonlight.   Pierrot, my friend!    ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lend me thy pen To write a word  In the moonlight.   Pierrot, my friend!    My candle's out,     I've no more fire;--      For love of God       Open thy door!        [Fr., Au clair de la lune         Mon ami Pierrot,          Prete moi ta plume           Pour ecrire un mot;            Ma chandelle est morte,             Je n'ai plus de feu,              Ouvre moi ta porte,               Pour l'amour de Dieu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou unassuming Commonplace Of Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou unassuming Commonplace Of Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4168]]></link><description><![CDATA[[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I felt like there's a lot of kids that could have played quarterback. We picked (Doolittle) because he's a big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38345]]></link><description><![CDATA[I felt like there's a lot of kids that could have played quarterback. We picked (Doolittle) because he's a big kid, got a great arm and he runs the offense that we're going to be using.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful when!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling. [Ger., Wenn ihr's nicht fuhlt ihr werdet's nicht erjagen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15539]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling. [Ger., Wenn ihr's nicht fuhlt ihr werdet's nicht erjagen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that goes barefoot, must not plant thornes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18904]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men perish with whispering sins--nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men perish with whispering sins--nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying sins; and in hell there shall meet as many men that never thought what was sin, as that spent all their thoughts in the compassing of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito sunt forti viro,  Quia dives arca veram laudem intercipit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64218]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he helped bring out the wounded, and the colors. You did not lose your colors in battle. And it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35438]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he helped bring out the wounded, and the colors. You did not lose your colors in battle. And it was a terrible disgrace if you lost your colors in battle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;  But you with pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;  But you with pleasure own your errors past,   And make each day a critique on the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a book is allowed to criticize a holder of a trademark and mock a trademark as well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34939]]></link><description><![CDATA[a book is allowed to criticize a holder of a trademark and mock a trademark as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big deal for us ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â all those corny things kids did in those days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33070]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big deal for us ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â all those corny things kids did in those days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A live dog is better than a dead lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50960]]></link><description><![CDATA[A live dog is better than a dead lion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56414]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51809]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrote these verses, but another claimed the merit of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When ice is real hard, it shatters and you can get microscopic shards of ice. You don't want them in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34479]]></link><description><![CDATA[When ice is real hard, it shatters and you can get microscopic shards of ice. You don't want them in your eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664 Sunshine let it be, or frost,  Storm or calm, as Thou shalt choose; Though Thine every gift were lost,  Thee Thyself we cannot lose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running is my church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running is my church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57456]]></link><description><![CDATA[It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36267]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36267</guid></item></channel></rss>