<?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[A spark can start a fire that burns the entire prairie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62812]]></link><description><![CDATA[A spark can start a fire that burns the entire prairie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have worked with Joey at Test level - it would be terrific to work with him again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have worked with Joey at Test level - it would be terrific to work with him again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23635]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,  And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. [Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17139]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. [Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive, and widely effective mode of saying things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a great season and a great game. It's a shame that someone had to lose this game and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28726]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a great season and a great game. It's a shame that someone had to lose this game and it's going to hurt these kids for a while, but a month from now, we'll be celebrating what we did.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole world loves a maverick and the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog. [Lat., Plus on apprend a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more one comes to know men, the more one comes to admire the dog. [Lat., Plus on apprend a connaltre l'homme, plus on apprend a estimer le chien.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute power turns its possessors not into a God but an anti-God. For God turned clay into men, while the absolute despot turns men into clay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10433]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My father said, "Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60401]]></link><description><![CDATA[My father said, "Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew. [Lat., Quod tantis Romana manus contexuit annis  Proditur unus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54404]]></link><description><![CDATA[What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor instantly overthrew. [Lat., Quod tantis Romana manus contexuit annis  Proditur unus iners angusto tempore vertit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47168]]></link><description><![CDATA[...economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18890]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the next block.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54959]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing, 'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;  All Nature's children feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51080]]></link><description><![CDATA[At morn the blackcock trims his jetty wing, 'Tis morning prompts the linnet's blithest lay;  All Nature's children feel the matin spring   Of life reviving, with reviving day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59847]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. -Harry Truman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1845]]></link><description><![CDATA[The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity. -Helen Rowland.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60065]]></link><description><![CDATA[Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I really haven't had much time for it to hit me hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39752]]></link><description><![CDATA[I really haven't had much time for it to hit me hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54350]]></link><description><![CDATA[All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would like to be a positive force for young girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66294]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would like to be a positive force for young girls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  An essential part of the ordination exam ought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bartolomè de las Casas, Apostle to the Indies, 1566  An essential part of the ordination exam ought to be a passage from some recognized theological work set for translation into vulgar English -- just like doing Latin prose. Failure on this part should mean failure on the whole exam. It is absolutely disgraceful that we expect missionaries to the Bantus to learn Bantu, but never ask whether our missionaries to the Americans or English can speak American or English. Any fool can write learned language: the vernacular is the real test. If you can't turn your faith into it, then either you don't understand it or you don't believe it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54853]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26888]]></link><description><![CDATA[I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30721]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a very tight balance in world supply and demand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41243]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a very tight balance in world supply and demand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, and Place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, and Place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26141]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15722]]></link><description><![CDATA[What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19072]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But she is vanish'd to her shady home Under the deep, inscrutable; and there  Weeps in a midnight made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18591]]></link><description><![CDATA[But she is vanish'd to her shady home Under the deep, inscrutable; and there  Weeps in a midnight made of her own hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no history but the length of my bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no history but the length of my bones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Horatio looked handsomely miserable, like Hamlet slipping on a piece of orange-peel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is useless to send armies against ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9555]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is useless to send armies against ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now comes the mystery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now comes the mystery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24611]]></link><description><![CDATA[The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53314]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would just support each other -- that's ninety percent of the problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53314</guid></item></channel></rss>