<?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[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do one thing every day that scares you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do one thing every day that scares you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24855]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laws and institutions are constantly tending to gravitate. Like clocks, they must be occasionally cleansed, and wound up, and set to true time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solid men of Boston, banish long potations! Solid men of Boston, make no long orations! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solid men of Boston, banish long potations! Solid men of Boston, make no long orations!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in;  But to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62203]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a very good world we live in To spend, and to lend, and to give in;  But to beg, or to borrow, or ask for our own;   'Tis the very worst world that ever was known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16333]]></link><description><![CDATA[All places are filled with fools. [Lat., Stultorum plenea sunt omnia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Till the rose's lips grow pale With her sighs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54439]]></link><description><![CDATA[Till the rose's lips grow pale With her sighs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1752]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leap out of the frying pan into the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leap out of the frying pan into the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52579]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2439]]></link><description><![CDATA[America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51718]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrows is remembering happier things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-growthamong those who don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22396]]></link><description><![CDATA[We find comfort among those who agree with us-growthamong those who don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44378]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The campaigns have done of a lot of the intensive grass-roots work and electronic media ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â radio and TV advertising. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31744]]></link><description><![CDATA[The campaigns have done of a lot of the intensive grass-roots work and electronic media ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â radio and TV advertising. They're clearly generating more interest than we had two years ago, and I think that'll carry through to election day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47056]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  No one who is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915  No one who is fit to live need fear to die. Poor, timorous, faithless souls that we are! How we shall smile at our vain alarms, when the worst has happened! To us here, death is the most terrible word we know. But when we have tasted its reality, it will mean to us birth, deliverance, a new creation of ourselves. It will be what health is to the sick man. It will be what home is to the exile. It will be what the loved one given back is to the bereaved. As we draw near to it, a great solemn gladness should fill our hearts. It is God's great morning lighting up the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15483]]></link><description><![CDATA[No free man will ask as favor, what he can not claim as reward. [Lat., Neutiquam officium liberi esse hominis puto  Cum is nihil promereat, postulare id gratiae apponi sibi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice and Judgment are thy throne  Yet wondrous is thy grace; While truth and mercy joined in one,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice and Judgment are thy throne  Yet wondrous is thy grace; While truth and mercy joined in one,  Invite us near thy face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our national debt, after all, is an internal debt, owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our national debt, after all, is an internal debt, owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If our children have to pay the interest they will pay that interest to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentration is the secret of strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentration is the secret of strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should finish off the chances at this level. If you get in front of the goal three or four ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33641]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should finish off the chances at this level. If you get in front of the goal three or four times, what more do you need?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect speakes, the tongue needes not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62969]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The early village cock Hath twice done salutation to the morn:  Your friends are up and buckle on their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The early village cock Hath twice done salutation to the morn:  Your friends are up and buckle on their armor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66048]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least,  But each with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The North! the South! the West! the East! No one the most and none the least,  But each with its own heart and mind,   Each of its own distinctive kind,    Yet each a part and none the whole,     But all together form one soul;      That soul Our Country at its best,       No North, no South, no East, no West,        No yours, no mine, but always Ours,         Merged in one Power our lesser powers,          For no one's favor, great or small,           But all for Each and each for All.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42952]]></link><description><![CDATA[In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known--that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18626]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fawn just died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41802]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fawn just died.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30296]]></link><description><![CDATA[He showed me his slider was his command pitch. I told him, 'You get behind in the count, throw it anyway.' He started throwing the breaking ball with the fastball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the dog has the temperament, and the owner has the drive, then those are the starting blocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30011]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the dog has the temperament, and the owner has the drive, then those are the starting blocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is always jealous ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is always jealous]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2773]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is done without ostentation, and without the people being witnesses of it, is, in my opinion, most praiseworthy: not that the public eye should be entirely avoided, for good actions desire to be placed in the light; but notwithstanding this, the greatest theater for virtue is conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20906]]></link><description><![CDATA[And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face;  Young beauties force ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3556]]></link><description><![CDATA[No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face;  Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape;   This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shows like CSI are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shows like CSI are teaching people that without forensic evidence you can't convict anybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tho' we earn our bread, Tom, By the dirty pen,  What we can we will be,   Honest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tho' we earn our bread, Tom, By the dirty pen,  What we can we will be,   Honest Englishmen.    Do the work that's nearest     Though it's dull at whiles,      Helping, when we meet them,       Lame dogs over stiles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He follows his father with unequal steps. [Lat., Sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14408]]></link><description><![CDATA[He follows his father with unequal steps. [Lat., Sequiturque patrem non passibus aequis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry, it's not loaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry, it's not loaded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20757]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2400]]></link><description><![CDATA[I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. An American's hatred for a fellow American...is far more virulent than any antipathy he can work up against foreigners...Should Americans begin to hate foreigners wholeheartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52318</guid></item></channel></rss>