<?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[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47090]]></link><description><![CDATA[In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You need to know how to ask the right questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33171]]></link><description><![CDATA[You need to know how to ask the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9467]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A new British survey has revealed that 9 out of 10 people like Chocolate. The tenth lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A new British survey has revealed that 9 out of 10 people like Chocolate. The tenth lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20673]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I count only the hours that are serene. [Lat., Horas non numero nisi serenas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58316]]></link><description><![CDATA[I count only the hours that are serene. [Lat., Horas non numero nisi serenas.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/173]]></link><description><![CDATA['Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1803]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the end that crowns us, not the fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13782]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in art is but a copy of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in art is but a copy of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents: persons who spend half their time worrying how a child will turn out, and the rest of the time wondering when a child will turn in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25510]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Either this wallpaper goes, or I do! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Either this wallpaper goes, or I do!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. "I come to seek God because I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7457]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. "I come to seek God because I need Him", may be an adequate formula for prayer. "I come to adore His splendour, and fling myself and all that I have at His feet", is the only possible formula for worship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59060]]></link><description><![CDATA[The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the Reds are our most viable alternative. We've talked to some other clubs, but those have been contingent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29873]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the Reds are our most viable alternative. We've talked to some other clubs, but those have been contingent discussions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17728]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes vision and courage to create--it takes faith and courage to prove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10352]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes vision and courage to create--it takes faith and courage to prove.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38304]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are still willing to do an honest day's work. The trouble is they want a week's pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51742]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hold a wolf by the ears. [I am in a dilemma I have caught a Tartar.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,  And let's be red with mirth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18435]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, your guests approach. Address yourself to entertain them sprightly,  And let's be red with mirth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was hell. I wouldn't wish this upon anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30980]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was hell. I wouldn't wish this upon anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's three inches thick, so it's going to keep all the heat inside your water heater that otherwise would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31355]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's three inches thick, so it's going to keep all the heat inside your water heater that otherwise would be radiating out into your room.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1834]]></link><description><![CDATA[To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proper study of mankind is books. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proper study of mankind is books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  How often we look upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Josephine Butler, Social Reformer, 1906 Commemoration of Apolo Kivebulaya, Priest, Evangelist, 1933  How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource! We go to him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul  May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;  While he who walks in love may wander far,  Yet God will bring him where the blessed are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Party honesty is party expediency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Party honesty is party expediency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune. [Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? By th' mass and 'tis, like a camel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? By th' mass and 'tis, like a camel indeed.  Methinks it is like a weasel.   It is backed like a weasel.    Or like a whale.     Very like a whale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47536]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. O. B.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8005]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE   Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshippers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship. Social religion is perfected when private religion is purified. The body becomes stronger as its members become healthier. The whole church of God gains when the members that compose it begin to seek a better and a higher life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's transparency is another's humiliation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35698]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's transparency is another's humiliation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58621]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prithee take the cork out of thy mouth, that I may drink thy tidings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winning makes an experience more positive. We played with some positive energy today, and with some intensity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winning makes an experience more positive. We played with some positive energy today, and with some intensity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20602]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;  Purple ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water: the poop was beaten gold;  Purple the sails, and so perfumed that   The winds were lovesick with them; the oars were silver,    Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made     The water which they beat to follow faster,      As amorous of their strokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59758]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year, Clear Channel Radio announced plans to launch Spanish-language formats in markets where there was a need for more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year, Clear Channel Radio announced plans to launch Spanish-language formats in markets where there was a need for more Hispanic-targeted programming. The success of KLOL/Mega epitomizes the very essence of what we hoped to accomplish,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28905</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></channel></rss>