<?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[Pay me for my work but I don't do it for the money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62175]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pay me for my work but I don't do it for the money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesters do oft prove prophets]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27390]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should try to succeed by merit, not by favor. He who does well will always have patrons enough. [Lat., Virtute ambire oportet, non favitoribus.  Sat habet favitorum semper, qui recte facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43531]]></link><description><![CDATA[True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51894]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no proverb which is not true. [Sp., No hay refran que no sea verdadero.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! when the means are gone that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! when the means are gone that buy this praise, The breath is gone whereof this praise is made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would prefer to make the changes we're looking for within the Memorial framework, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38767]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would prefer to make the changes we're looking for within the Memorial framework,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -how passionately I hate them!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as U.S. and UK forces hold prisoners in secret detention conditions, torture is much more likely to occur, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39545]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as U.S. and UK forces hold prisoners in secret detention conditions, torture is much more likely to occur, to go undetected and to go unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57928]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll try to slow them down. They like to run, and we like to run. But we'll have to slow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40795]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll try to slow them down. They like to run, and we like to run. But we'll have to slow it down little bit and try to run what we want to run. They may have some depth, and I don't. We'll have to prepare for everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The abuse of these laws is not only the worry of Muslims but the Australian community, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The abuse of these laws is not only the worry of Muslims but the Australian community,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46296]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,  Whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,  Whose weakness married to thy stronger state   Makes with me thy strength to communicate.    If aught possess thee from me, it is dross,     Usurping ivy, brier, or idle moss;      Who all for want of pruning, with intrusion       Infect thy sap and live on thy confusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is most powerful who has power over himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47909]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is most powerful who has power over himself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5659]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many peoplecome to the fountain of life with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22333]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many peoplecome to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car...ateaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a resultthey get little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65586]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59541]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know - and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Love is that liquor sweet and most divine Which my God feels as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 Love is that liquor sweet and most divine Which my God feels as blood; but I, as wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than bytheir understandings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than bytheir understandings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63921]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Lord, forgive the misprints! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Lord, forgive the misprints!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of the Methodist movement, which enabled it to conquer the raw lives of workingmen in industrial England, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of the Methodist movement, which enabled it to conquer the raw lives of workingmen in industrial England, and the raw lives of men and women on the American frontier, was the "class meeting" -- ten members and their leader, meeting regularly for mutual encouragement, rebuke, nurture, and prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57973]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50920]]></link><description><![CDATA[And gentle Dulness ever loves a joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had it in our hands and then he makes a spin move, double-pumps, goes under me and shoots a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32699]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had it in our hands and then he makes a spin move, double-pumps, goes under me and shoots a three, off-balance, on one leg and makes it. Congratulations!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one's ever studied them in the Pacific states before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39742]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one's ever studied them in the Pacific states before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9991]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few sons attain the praise Of their great sires and most their sires disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23373]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth, 'tis supposed, may bear all lights; and one those principal lights or natural mediums by which things are to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54213]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth, 'tis supposed, may bear all lights; and one those principal lights or natural mediums by which things are to be viewed in order to a thorough recognition is ridicule itself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43199]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is frequently lost in translation is that our pregnancy rates are anywhere from 40 to 60% higher than other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32921]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is frequently lost in translation is that our pregnancy rates are anywhere from 40 to 60% higher than other areas of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iago's soliloquy--the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful it is!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60905]]></link><description><![CDATA[People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25647</guid></item></channel></rss>