<?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 supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He said true things, but called them by wrong names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59811]]></link><description><![CDATA[He said true things, but called them by wrong names.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show,  Not learning more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26472]]></link><description><![CDATA[What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show,  Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach,   Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet    Builds in the weather on the outward wall,     Even in the force and road of casualty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24294]]></link><description><![CDATA[How noble the law, in its majestic equality, that both the rich and poor are equally prohibited from peeing in the streets, sleeping under bridges, and stealing bread!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never used a needle in my life. I picked up 62 needles around my yard ? 10 right out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34045]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never used a needle in my life. I picked up 62 needles around my yard ? 10 right out in front.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Constancy is the complement of all other human virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray;  As night to stars, woe lustre gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Affliction is the good man's shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray;  As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all lies, art is the least untrue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all lies, art is the least untrue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence doesn't always work -- but violence never does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water. Yet when it attacks the firm and the strong, none can withstand it, because they have no way to change it. So the flexible overcome the adamant, the yielding overcome the forceful. Everyone knows this, but no one can do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He never saw me play ball in high school. You had to rely on relationships or a friend who knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28623]]></link><description><![CDATA[He never saw me play ball in high school. You had to rely on relationships or a friend who knew of a good player in this town or that town.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44516]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44516</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[A man's dreams are an index to his greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silver livery of advised age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silver livery of advised age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have people spending 55 minutes online is fascinating, because they are not doing something else. There are a fixed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41419]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have people spending 55 minutes online is fascinating, because they are not doing something else. There are a fixed number of minutes in a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's an extremely vital tourist attraction. We get calls all the time: 'When are they running again?' I want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31500]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's an extremely vital tourist attraction. We get calls all the time: 'When are they running again?' I want to see this back on schedule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44175]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. - The Silence of the Sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus Why does He make our hearts so strangely still,  Why stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus Why does He make our hearts so strangely still,  Why stands He forth so stately and so tall? Because He has no self to serve, no will  That does not seek the welfare of the All.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. [Fr., L'absence diminue les mediocres passions et augmente les grandes, comme le vent eteint les bougies et allume le feu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some have said that the power of a Redeemer would depend upon two things: first, upon the richness of the self that was given; and second, upon the depths of the giving. Friend and foe alike are agreed on the question of the character of Jesus Christ... Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus. Character is supreme in life, and hence Jesus stood supreme in the supreme thing -- so supreme that, when we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human life is no longer a code, but a character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no living with thee, nor without thee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25763]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no living with thee, nor without thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism is workable only in heaven where it isn't needed, and in hell where they've got it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best smell in the world is that man that you love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5396]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best smell in the world is that man that you love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not one or two, Subhuti, not one or two, but all the beings - men, women, animals, birds, trees, rocks. All the beings in the world. One should create such a determination that `I will lead all of them into nirvana'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes And interchanged love tokens with my child;  Thou hast by moonlight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou, thou, Lysander, thou hast given her rhymes And interchanged love tokens with my child;  Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung   With feigning voice verses of feigning love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48186]]></link><description><![CDATA[A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you're looking down, you can't see something that's above you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else." (Vox et praeterea nibil.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Potential customers have more faith and confidence in the financial health of IBM. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Potential customers have more faith and confidence in the financial health of IBM.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It says a whole lot about his character. To step up there and made two free throws like that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34111]]></link><description><![CDATA[It says a whole lot about his character. To step up there and made two free throws like that is something else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26138]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to give it up to Evanston. They went into their trap and we stopped attacking and we played ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32374]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to give it up to Evanston. They went into their trap and we stopped attacking and we played timid. We were lucky we were able to hang on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a man of the people, so this is a wonderful tribute; he loved America and it's fitting that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38044]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a man of the people, so this is a wonderful tribute; he loved America and it's fitting that the country recognizes him as a national treasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1214]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36989]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a peculiar part of the good photographer's adventure to know where luck is most likely to lie in the stream, to hook it, and to bring it in without unfair play and without too much subduing it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,  The bird of dawning singeth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some say that ever 'gainst that season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated,  The bird of dawning singeth all night long,   And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad,    The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike,     No fairy takes, nor witch hath power to charm.      So hallowed and so gracious is that time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These cards can really help you pay off your mortgage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32295]]></link><description><![CDATA[These cards can really help you pay off your mortgage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22110]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50632]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can see a forest fire. Skill lies in sniffing the first smoke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are our lame praises in comparison with His love? Nothing, and less than nothing; but love will stammer rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8035]]></link><description><![CDATA[What are our lame praises in comparison with His love? Nothing, and less than nothing; but love will stammer rather than be dumb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blair not only disregards the millions of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he does not care about you as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blair not only disregards the millions of people in Iraq and Afghanistan, but he does not care about you as he sends you to the inferno in Iraq and exposes you to death in your land because of his crusader war against Islam.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. [Lat., Etiam singulorum fatigatio quamlibet se ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be. [Lat., Etiam singulorum fatigatio quamlibet se rudi modulatione solatur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prince Charles and his son William worked off their Christmas dinner yesterday by trying to blast some small furry creatures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prince Charles and his son William worked off their Christmas dinner yesterday by trying to blast some small furry creatures to pieces.http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17512]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17512</guid></item></channel></rss>