<?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[Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are millions of people all over the world, right now, who are looking to the United Nations for protection ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41098]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are millions of people all over the world, right now, who are looking to the United Nations for protection and redress against the violation of their rights and deprivation of their freedoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49010]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is not yet over and hundreds of thousands of people still urgently need to be reached. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is not yet over and hundreds of thousands of people still urgently need to be reached.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would not be indolent, let him fall in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50727]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would not be indolent, let him fall in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall early (sitting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57223]]></link><description><![CDATA[She makes her hand hard with labour, and her heart soft with pity: and when winter evenings fall early (sitting at her merry wheel), she sings a defiance to the giddy wheel of fortune . . . and fears no manner of ill because she means none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65711]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41089]]></link><description><![CDATA[He looked like an Italian, was dressed like an Englishman, and had the independent air of an American--a combination which caused sundry pairs of feminine eyes to look approvingly after him, and sundry dandies in black velvet suits, with rose-colored neckties, buff gloves, and orange flowers in their buttonholes, to shrug their shoulders, and then envy him his inches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65943]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in order to prove that they are right?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The London attack is one of the attacks that al-Qaida ... had the honour of carrying out against Zionist, British ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29798]]></link><description><![CDATA[The London attack is one of the attacks that al-Qaida ... had the honour of carrying out against Zionist, British arrogance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52250]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gentleman is not in your books. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gentleman is not in your books. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Liberty from Greece withdrew, And o'er the Adriatic flew,  To where the Tiber pours his urn,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24685]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Liberty from Greece withdrew, And o'er the Adriatic flew,  To where the Tiber pours his urn,   She struck the rude Tarpeian rock;    Sparks were kindled by the shock--     Again thy fires began to burn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent. [Fr., Le bruit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silly when deceived exclaim loudly; the fool complains; the honest man walks away and is silent. [Fr., Le bruit est pour le fat, la plainte pour le sot;  L'honnete homme trompe s'eloigne et ne dit mot.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25172]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine;  A small Euphrates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now scantier limits the proud arch confine, And scarce are seen the prostrate Nile or Rhine;  A small Euphrates thro' the piece is roll'd,   And little eagles wave their wings in gold.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of thy presence and no land beside. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of thy presence and no land beside. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20368]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't test courage cautiously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10318]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't test courage cautiously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the outages were related to winds. In some areas, the ground was so saturated that the wind knocked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32813]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the outages were related to winds. In some areas, the ground was so saturated that the wind knocked trees over.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We really looked up to Jamie and Justin, because they paved the way for us as the up-and-coming U.S. team. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29993]]></link><description><![CDATA[We really looked up to Jamie and Justin, because they paved the way for us as the up-and-coming U.S. team. It's an unbelievable accomplishment for Jamie to come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40635]]></link><description><![CDATA[1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3971]]></link><description><![CDATA[No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64991]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7085]]></link><description><![CDATA[God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49861]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9467]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10486]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16873]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as we were done with it, we were beyond it. We've been dying to write this record. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40115]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as we were done with it, we were beyond it. We've been dying to write this record.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9207]]></link><description><![CDATA[People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! thou who are greatly mad, deign to spare me who am less mad. [Lat., O major tandem parcas, insane, minori.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20804]]></link><description><![CDATA[Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, what ecstasy setting fires brings to my body! What power I feel at the thought of fire!...Oh, what pleasure, what heavenly pleasure!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cowboy is a man with guts and a horse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19827]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cowboy is a man with guts and a horse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60942]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's style is his mind's voice. Wooden minds, wooden voices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's about getting mad, getting crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34455]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's about getting mad, getting crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62636]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4795]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true heiress is never mean to anyone - except a girl who steals your boyfriend]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper,--"orthodoxy is my doxy,--heterodoxy is another man's doxy." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12638]]></link><description><![CDATA["Orthodoxy, my Lord,: said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper,--"orthodoxy is my doxy,--heterodoxy is another man's doxy."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49329]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence--  Some to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, now a roundel and a fairy song; Then, for the third part of a minute, hence--  Some to kill canters in the musk-rose buds,   Some war with reremice for their leathren wings,    To make my small elves coats, and some keep back     The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and wonders      At our quaint spirits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou desirest to be safe, turn at once in thy emptiness to God. If thou hast been inconsistent, how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7254]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou desirest to be safe, turn at once in thy emptiness to God. If thou hast been inconsistent, how canst thou better become consistent again than in God only? How canst thou better escape death than by the true, real Life -- which is God Himself?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7254</guid></item></channel></rss>