<?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 the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52824]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where stray ye, Muses! in what lawn or grove, . . . .  In those fair fields where sacred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where stray ye, Muses! in what lawn or grove, . . . .  In those fair fields where sacred Isis glides,   Or else where Cam his winding vales divides?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46254]]></link><description><![CDATA[A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another islisten to each other's stories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22439]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another islisten to each other's stories.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9717]]></link><description><![CDATA[So there are five ways of knowing who will win. Those who know when to fight and when not to fight are victorious. Those who discern when to use many or few troops are victorious. Those whose upper and lower ranks have the same desire are victorious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our sincere wish that the Northern Ireland institutions be restored as soon as possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30123]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our sincere wish that the Northern Ireland institutions be restored as soon as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misfortune tests friends, and detects enemies]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every single person who receives (this type of treatment) develops ... this inflammation in the lower rectal area. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28256]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every single person who receives (this type of treatment) develops ... this inflammation in the lower rectal area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Short History of Myth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39491]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Short History of Myth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13406]]></link><description><![CDATA[My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log and a student on the other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4822]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus every boy is a challenge to his elders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18063]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58150]]></link><description><![CDATA[The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I paint with shapes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3359]]></link><description><![CDATA[I paint with shapes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At risk, there is the Bank of Italy and the economy minister, who could end up resigning on the eve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35811]]></link><description><![CDATA[At risk, there is the Bank of Italy and the economy minister, who could end up resigning on the eve of the 2006 budget,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanity either makes, or breeds, or tolerates all its afflictions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27525]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4331]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54352]]></link><description><![CDATA[She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The goate must browse where she is tyed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The goate must browse where she is tyed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever you are, be a good one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64757]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever you are, be a good one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two great groups of animals, men and ants, indulge in highly organized mass warfare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two great groups of animals, men and ants, indulge in highly organized mass warfare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart I fain would ask thee What then is Love? say on.  "Two souls and one thought only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25624]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart I fain would ask thee What then is Love? say on.  "Two souls and one thought only   Two hearts that throb as one."    [Ger., Mein Herz ich will dich fragen,     Was ist denn Liebe, sag?      "Zwei Seelen und ein Gedanke,       Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52522]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him.   - Francis Bacon,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9402]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now within the reach of our resources. Both now depend upon human decision and human will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/805]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fair, the chaste, and unexpressive she. -As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18064]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great cowardice is hidden by a bluster of daring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We love orthodoxy. It is good. It is the best. It is the clean, clear cut teaching of God's Word, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8381]]></link><description><![CDATA[We love orthodoxy. It is good. It is the best. It is the clean, clear cut teaching of God's Word, the trophies won by truth in its conflict with error, the levees which faith has raised against the desolating floods of honest or reckless misbelief or unbelief; but orthodoxy, clear and hard as crystal, suspicious and militant, may be but the letter well shaped, well named, and well learned, the letter which kills. Nothing is so dead as a dead orthodoxy -- too dead to speculate, too dead to think, to study, or to pray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour  Calls us to penance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53822]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour  Calls us to penance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15977]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to prosper, let your customer prosper.When people have learned this lesson, everyone will seek his individual welfare in the general welfare. Then jealousies between man and man, city and city, province and province, nation and nation, will no longer trouble the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who knows "how" will always have a job. The person who knows "why" will always be his boss.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Never see . . . a dead post-boy, did you?" inquired Sam. . . . "No," rejoined Bob, "I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61979]]></link><description><![CDATA["Never see . . . a dead post-boy, did you?" inquired Sam. . . . "No," rejoined Bob, "I never did." "No!" rejoined Sam triumphantly. "Nor never vill; and there's another thing that no man never see, and that's a dead donkey."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Let the Gospels speak. Of what I have learnt from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387  Let the Gospels speak. Of what I have learnt from these documents in the course of my long task, I will say nothing now. Only this, that they bear the seal of the Son of Man and God, they are the Magna Charta of the human spirit. Were we to devote to their comprehension a little of the selfless enthusiasm that is now expended on the riddle of our physical surroundings, we would cease to say that Christianity is coming to an end -- we might even feel that it had only just begun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17466]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never blame anyone if you get hurt because you took the risk, and you decided who was worth the try. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never blame anyone if you get hurt because you took the risk, and you decided who was worth the try.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52317]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whence come these hatreds...? They are an expression of a desperate effort to suppress an awareness of our inadequacy, worthlessness, guilt and other shortcomings of the self. Self-contempt is here transmuted into hatred of others- and there is a most determined and persistent effort to mask this switch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are respectable only as they respect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are respectable only as they respect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are buying a cow, make sure that the price of the tail is included. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5160]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are buying a cow, make sure that the price of the tail is included.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calumny is only the noise of madmen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calumny is only the noise of madmen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride:  Let Nature guide thee; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46000]]></link><description><![CDATA[To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride:  Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire   The shining belles of the fly require;    The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail,     Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's one man's poison, signior, Is another's meat or drink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46864]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's one man's poison, signior, Is another's meat or drink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46864</guid></item></channel></rss>