<?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[God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8443]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not a deceiver, that he should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27476]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emotional effects after Hurricane Katrina had started to dissipate. Then along came Rita. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38957]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emotional effects after Hurricane Katrina had started to dissipate. Then along came Rita.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16805]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that gives thee a Capon, give him the leg and the wing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49342]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that gives thee a Capon, give him the leg and the wing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I know no South, no North, no East, no West, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have heard something said about allegiance to the South: I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These arrests have taken place under the present structures of laws, which proves that these laws can tackle this issue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29079]]></link><description><![CDATA[These arrests have taken place under the present structures of laws, which proves that these laws can tackle this issue adequately.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. [Lat., Quia ne vestigia terrent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15513]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. [Lat., Quia ne vestigia terrent  Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrosum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46306]]></link><description><![CDATA[It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach,  And, if it can, at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/431]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach,  And, if it can, at once both please and preach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a living image of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a living image of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56469]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, she will sing the savageness out of a bear!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877  Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But winter lingering chills the lap of May. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26609]]></link><description><![CDATA[But winter lingering chills the lap of May.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41719]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["If you don't mind me asking," came the bell-like tones of the Golden Diana, "I'd like to know where you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44437]]></link><description><![CDATA["If you don't mind me asking," came the bell-like tones of the Golden Diana, "I'd like to know where you got that City Hall brogue. I did not know that Liberty was necessarily Irish." "If ye'd studied the history of art in its foreign complications, ye'd not need ask," replied Mrs. Liberty, "If ye wasn't so light and giddy ye'd know that I was made by a Dago and presented to the American people on behalf of the French Government for the purpose of welcomin' Irish immigrants into the Dutch city of New York. 'Tis that I've been doing night and day since I was erected."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nostalgia is a seductive liar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nostalgia is a seductive liar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63584]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the signature of civilizations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the signature of civilizations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! -King Henry VI. Part I. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fire is next akin to smoke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fire is next akin to smoke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That kid came out of no where to make that play on the passed ball. I thought Taylor could score ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36303]]></link><description><![CDATA[That kid came out of no where to make that play on the passed ball. I thought Taylor could score on that. On the relay throw, they needed a perfect one to throw him out and they made the play. You have to force the other team to make that play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may have tangible wealth untold,Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.Richer than I you could never be;I know someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22438]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may have tangible wealth untold,Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.Richer than I you could never be;I know someone who told stories to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58092]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before--consequences that are hardly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before--consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We weren't wrapping up. We weren't tackling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29481]]></link><description><![CDATA[We weren't wrapping up. We weren't tackling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13897]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one nature--the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanism, it seems, is almost impossible in America where material progress is part of the national romance whereas in Europe such progress is relished because it feels nice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8850]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19537]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Horse made, and a man to make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49037]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Horse made, and a man to make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building is a sweet impoverishing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Building is a sweet impoverishing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to live-I want to love first, and live incidentally. -Zelda Fitzgerald. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14797]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to live-I want to love first, and live incidentally. -Zelda Fitzgerald.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39794]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is just chaos with better lighting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is just chaos with better lighting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;  The rose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51119]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;  The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,   And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost every position he took in his life I was highly supportive of. He was a hero in many respects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost every position he took in his life I was highly supportive of. He was a hero in many respects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smelling of the lamp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smelling of the lamp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3531</guid></item></channel></rss>