<?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[Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65039]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and those negotiations may have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37503]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the kind of intractable problem that can probably only be resolved through negotiations, and those negotiations may have to include the Boeing-Airbus dispute - which, given its complexity, should be settled through negotiations anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34437]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12122]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14471]]></link><description><![CDATA[When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men are more dependent on fools than fools on wise men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go away... I'm alright. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go away... I'm alright.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58814]]></link><description><![CDATA[If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,  And range an Indian waste ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59998]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread,  And range an Indian waste without a tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thousands of lights were burning on the green branches, and gaily-colored pictures, such as she had seen in the shop-windows, looked down upon her. The little maiden stretched out her hands towards them when--the match went out. The lights of the Christmas tree rose higher and higher, she saw them now as stars in heaven . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our intention creates our reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our intention creates our reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole,  Yet 'tis Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole,  Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids them fly,   Thy arm directs those lightnings through the sky.    Then let the good Thy mighty name revere,     And hardened sinners Thy just vengeance fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch youburn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch youburn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22415</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[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can say he is wise but only someone wise can admit he is a fool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49072]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65280]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians are prophets with their face turned backward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory is the child of peril. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory is the child of peril.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always count the cost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always count the cost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder for someone else ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder for someone else]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to inpart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shoemaker, stick to your last. [Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shoemaker, stick to your last. [Lat., Ne supra crepidam judicaret.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless your works lead to profit, vain is your glory in them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe I am the highest power, absolutely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35701]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe I am the highest power, absolutely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18350]]></link><description><![CDATA[While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30716]]></link><description><![CDATA[People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10199]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That possession was the strongest tenure of the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47754]]></link><description><![CDATA[That possession was the strongest tenure of the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;  He could distinguish, and divide   A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10727]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;  He could distinguish, and divide   A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Christians we believe that man is not a thing; he is not a commodity to be bought and sold, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6192]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Christians we believe that man is not a thing; he is not a commodity to be bought and sold, and he is not to be used in an impersonal way. Man, a child of God, is a person with a personal destiny and with eternal value. This Christian belief underlies the democratic principle that the State, first of all, exists for the sake of its citizens; the individual is important... As Christians we also believe that we are made for one another because we are made for God. "Solidarity" is a good word for our essential condition. Beneath all our differences is a unity... This Christian belief underlies a second basic democratic principle, which is, in governing themselves, people of a community -- in a town, a city, a state, a nation -- can, despite inevitable conflicts, press effectively toward the goal of justice and liberty for all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an hour in each man's life appointed To make his happiness, if then he seize it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45061]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an hour in each man's life appointed To make his happiness, if then he seize it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18317]]></link><description><![CDATA[To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A joy shared is a joy doubled ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23390]]></link><description><![CDATA[A joy shared is a joy doubled]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that lives ill, feare followes him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that lives ill, feare followes him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you like a fat kid loves cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you like a fat kid loves cake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11548]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5847]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man must behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness was not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4190]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scripture?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12143]]></link><description><![CDATA["I think if the devil doesn't exist, then man has created him. He has created him in his own image and likeness." "Just as man created God, then?" observed Alyosha.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3300]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deceit is in haste, but honesty can wait a fair leisure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57616]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1674]]></link><description><![CDATA[When something [an affliction] happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1674</guid></item></channel></rss>