<?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[Politeness wins the confidence of princes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness wins the confidence of princes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause;  Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4851]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause;  Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can,   Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every fool finds a greater one to admire them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every fool finds a greater one to admire them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They've got more scale and can do something with it, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33219]]></link><description><![CDATA[They've got more scale and can do something with it,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From compromise and things half done,     Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9297]]></link><description><![CDATA[From compromise and things half done,     Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won,     God, keep me still unsatisfied.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is simply the reification of the process of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is simply the reification of the process of living.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Master, master, old news! And such news as you never heard of!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its the little things that matter, that add up in the end, with the priceless thrilling magic found only in a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sit in judgmentof those things which you perceive to be wrong orimperfect is to be one more person who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21516]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sit in judgmentof those things which you perceive to be wrong orimperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil orimperfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25012]]></link><description><![CDATA[When life life does not find a singer to sing her heat, she produces a philosopher to speak her mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have to be told that they must begin destroying their stocks of chicken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29303]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have to be told that they must begin destroying their stocks of chicken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63944]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56840]]></link><description><![CDATA[A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/482]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the Philosophy of the Distaffe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51415]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can't give us any word ? alive, or what ? but we are hoping he is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40941]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can't give us any word ? alive, or what ? but we are hoping he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every individual is the architect of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every individual is the architect of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over allevil on the raft of knowledge. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you are the most evil of all sinners, you will cross over allevil on the raft of knowledge. Just as a flaming fire reduces wood toashes Argina, so the fire of knowledge reduces all actions to ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14998]]></link><description><![CDATA[A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14401]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good and the wise lead quiet lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good and the wise lead quiet lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to bet it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;  His form was bent, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18629]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry;  His form was bent, and his gait was slow,   His long thin hair was white as snow,    But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye.     And he sang every night as he went to bed,      "Let us be happy down here below:       The living should live, though the dead be dead."        Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26219]]></link><description><![CDATA[We go by the major vote, and if the majority are insane, the sane must go to the hospital.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm; The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm; The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3643]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We who lived in the concentration camps can rememberthe men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away theirlast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22676]]></link><description><![CDATA[We who lived in the concentration camps can rememberthe men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away theirlast piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offersufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing:The last of the human freedoms-to choose one's attitude in any given setof circumstances, to choose one's own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mother of dead dogs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mother of dead dogs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier--white;  The dusty collier heaves his ponderous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus when a barber and collier fight, The barber beats the luckless collier--white;  The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack,   And, big with vengeance, beats the barber--black.    In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'er spread,     And beats the collier and the barber--red;      Black, red, and white, in various clouds are toss'd,       And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was concerned and when I asked Ashton if she was OK, she smiled. I knew then that she would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was concerned and when I asked Ashton if she was OK, she smiled. I knew then that she would be OK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger should never be an overnight guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger should never be an overnight guest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flattery is from the teeth out. Sincere appreciation is from the heart out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63941]]></link><description><![CDATA[To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In vain I trusted that the flowing bowl Would banish sorrow, and enlarge the soul.  To the late revel, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22927]]></link><description><![CDATA[In vain I trusted that the flowing bowl Would banish sorrow, and enlarge the soul.  To the late revel, and protracted feast,   Wild dreams succeeded, and disorder'd rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the first time the U.S. bond market has not been leading other bond markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28438]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the first time the U.S. bond market has not been leading other bond markets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   The dual role of personification of the past and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7965]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941   The dual role of personification of the past and preserver of a subcultural ethos, a role clergymen play quite avidly, takes its toll when they speak of God. Because of the role they have been willing to play, when they use the word God it is heard in a certain way. It is heard, often with deference and usually with courtesy, as a word referring to the linchpin of the era of Christendom (past) or as the totem of one of the tribal subcultures (irrelevant). The only way clergy can ever change the way in which the word they use is perceived is to refuse to play the role of antiquarian and medicine man in which the society casts them; but this is difficult, because it is what they are paid for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be airily dismissed. Many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7832]]></link><description><![CDATA[The testimony of the New Testament cannot be lightly disregarded, nor can the claims of Christ be airily dismissed. Many otherwise intelligent people have never read with adult attention either the four Gospels or the Letters of the New Testament. When they so do, to my certain knowledge they not infrequently become converted. Indeed, I know of no adult who has seriously studied the New Testament and rejected the stories of Christ as mythical or the evidence of changed lives in the Letters as mere fabrication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is the unsaid part of what you think; it's opposite, the unthought part of which you say]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50797</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[Diligence is the mother of good fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diligence is the mother of good fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12294</guid></item></channel></rss>