<?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[Hope! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope! of all ills that men endure, The only cheap and universal cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65849]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the nature of great souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the nature of great souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47138]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are born poets. we become orators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48886]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are born poets. we become orators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,  Stays till we call, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,  Stays till we call, and then not often near.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're getting a little out of hand, a little ridiculous. I still like a couple of them, but it gets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29453]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're getting a little out of hand, a little ridiculous. I still like a couple of them, but it gets old after a while.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hungry man is not a free man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16700]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hungry man is not a free man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much money makes a Countrey poor, for it sets a dearer price on every thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43190]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to show your ability before everyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to show your ability before everyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth - for your love is more delightful than wine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth - for your love is more delightful than wine]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26339]]></link><description><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is never finished, only abandoned. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is never finished, only abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27232]]></link><description><![CDATA[A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24182]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  Moderate bodily discipline is useful in resisting depression, because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  Moderate bodily discipline is useful in resisting depression, because it rouses the mind from dwelling on itself; and frequent Communion is specially valuable; the Bread of Life strengthens the heart and gladdens the spirits. It may be useful, too, to lay bare all the feelings, thoughts, and longings which are the result of your depression before some spiritual advisor, in all humility and faithfulness; to seek the society of spiritually minded people, and to frequent such as far as possible while you are suffering. And finally, resign yourself into God's hands, endeavoring to bear this harassing depression patiently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54694]]></link><description><![CDATA[I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19381]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many are called but few get up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many are called but few get up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President means chief servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48155]]></link><description><![CDATA[President means chief servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To apprehend thus Draws us a profit from all things we see,  And often, to our comfort, shall we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3917]]></link><description><![CDATA[To apprehend thus Draws us a profit from all things we see,  And often, to our comfort, shall we find   The sharded beetle in a safer hold    Than is the full-winged eagle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The internet is a great way to get on the net. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9365]]></link><description><![CDATA[The internet is a great way to get on the net.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14784]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me also remind you that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't been playing up to our capabilities lately. A win like this, a win at Syracuse ... I mean, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37596]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't been playing up to our capabilities lately. A win like this, a win at Syracuse ... I mean, we were up 24 in the Carrier Dome. That says something about who we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless chimes and starry skies;  And all that's best of dark ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3845]]></link><description><![CDATA[She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless chimes and starry skies;  And all that's best of dark and bright   Meet in her aspect and her eyes:    Thus mellowed to that tender light     Which heaven to gaudy day denies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12343]]></link><description><![CDATA[American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon.  Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Endearing Waltz--to thy more melting tune Bow Irish jig, and ancient rigadoon.  Scotch reels, avaunt! and country-dance forego   Your future claims to each fantastic toe!    Waltz--Waltz alone--both legs and arms demands,     Liberal of feet, and lavish of her hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We remain optimistic that between now and the date of the scheduled vote we will be able to move ahead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41581]]></link><description><![CDATA[We remain optimistic that between now and the date of the scheduled vote we will be able to move ahead and address these community concerns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18252]]></link><description><![CDATA[No great deed is done By falterers who ask for certainty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of one who flatters unduly; he will also censure unjustly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The military has mishandled the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29788]]></link><description><![CDATA[The military has mishandled the situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885    After saying our prayers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885    After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/325]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23608]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21148]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not given but exchanged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not given but exchanged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18662</guid></item></channel></rss>