<?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[Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something attempted, something done, Has earned a nights repose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peacetime conscription is the greatest step toward regimentation and militarism ever undertaken by the Congress of the United States. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12814]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peacetime conscription is the greatest step toward regimentation and militarism ever undertaken by the Congress of the United States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is what feelings sound like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is what feelings sound like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque  Qui fasse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clemency is the surest proof of a true monarch. [Fr., La clemence est la plus belle marque  Qui fasse a l'univers connaitre un vrai monqrque.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43255]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't describe it. It's totally weird. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42638]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't describe it. It's totally weird.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41816]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of middle-class black people think that the Democrats have nothing new to say about race, that their ideas are bankrupt, and that the party basically takes their loyalty for granted, ... Then the Republicans start coming around and we're like the lonely girl standing against the wall at a dance. Even if you know it's lip service, you feel receptive, just because somebody has bothered to come over and pay attention to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60255]]></link><description><![CDATA[VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use Unix.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne. [The wolf must die in his own skin.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne. [The wolf must die in his own skin.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29559]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature, this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to the children of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10226]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can a man be said to have a country when he has not right of a square inch of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Running is my church. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Running is my church.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cytherea, How bravely thou becom'st thy bed, fresh lily,  And whiter than the sheets! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cytherea, How bravely thou becom'st thy bed, fresh lily,  And whiter than the sheets!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16056]]></link><description><![CDATA[And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Identity is theft of the self ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Identity is theft of the self]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52500]]></link><description><![CDATA[All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to prioritize the community's well-being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34725]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to prioritize the community's well-being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35011]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let all things be done decently and in order. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let all things be done decently and in order.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing that costs only a dollar is not worth having]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to point out that our responsibility is a relative one only, for as we think of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to point out that our responsibility is a relative one only, for as we think of the world-wide disintegration of the human family, the prospect before us could easily fill us with alarm and despondency, if we were not sure first of the absolute sovereignty of God who (I speak reverently) knows what He is doing in conducting this enormous experiment that we call life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two other precious drops that ready stood, Each, in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell  Kiss'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two other precious drops that ready stood, Each, in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell  Kiss'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!  The things, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, of straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!  The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare,   But wonder how the devil they got there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total ;of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47421]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63739]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's prophets of the Beautiful, These Poets were. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46845]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's prophets of the Beautiful, These Poets were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By-and-by has no end. [Lat., Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59297]]></link><description><![CDATA[By-and-by has no end. [Lat., Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fireflies o'er the meadow In pulses come and go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63884]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was simply amazed; in my 20-plus years as a funeral home director, I have never seen workers come out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40410]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was simply amazed; in my 20-plus years as a funeral home director, I have never seen workers come out in force in a display of respect as I had here today. There were state highway department workers at every intersection on the way to the cemetery and about 40 to 50 state trucks on hand. The Illinois Department of Transportation takes care of its own. It was very impressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude is monstrous ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude is monstrous]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's outlook is a part of his virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60761]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's outlook is a part of his virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14118]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[There is an odd grammar in that sentence, which seems wrong, but is actually precise.] Close siblings were less common, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39538]]></link><description><![CDATA[[There is an odd grammar in that sentence, which seems wrong, but is actually precise.] Close siblings were less common, ... It seemed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Chicken is the Countries, but the Citie eats it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Chicken is the Countries, but the Citie eats it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very common story. They're two very hard-working parents who have careers. They have aspirations. They're working extremely hard, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very common story. They're two very hard-working parents who have careers. They have aspirations. They're working extremely hard, but they have children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance generally favors the prudent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance generally favors the prudent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26483</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[Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57501]]></link><description><![CDATA[To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1302]]></link><description><![CDATA[To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9291</guid></item></channel></rss>