<?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[But even the Christian, for all this satisfying and hopeful conviction, does not know the meaning of the mystery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7952]]></link><description><![CDATA[But even the Christian, for all this satisfying and hopeful conviction, does not know the meaning of the mystery of life, and if he is wise he does not pretend to. He has enough light to light him on his way, but there are a great many gaps in his knowledge. When he says, "One day we shall understand", he is by no means always uttering a pious platitude. Quite frequently he is voicing a solid conviction, a genuine facet of hope. At present his vision is severely limited, and that is probably just as well, if his sanity is to be preserved. But when he is free of the limitations of temporal life, he has every hope of being able to know as surely as he is at present known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calmness is the cradle of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calmness is the cradle of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48573]]></link><description><![CDATA[But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee: Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In dog years, I'm dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12683]]></link><description><![CDATA[In dog years, I'm dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to see what your friends and family think of you, die broke, and see who comes to your funeral]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the governor expressed his concern that the local officials representing so many citizens were so stridently opposed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31897]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the governor expressed his concern that the local officials representing so many citizens were so stridently opposed to the proposal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it pure ignorance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23058]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the potato, the balance of European power might never have tilted north.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42314]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a character. He's a real crack up, just a goofy wrestler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28350]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a character. He's a real crack up, just a goofy wrestler.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us who can be against us? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17686]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us who can be against us?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the hope of all firefighters that there are people still in there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41000]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the hope of all firefighters that there are people still in there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love. . -Lao Tzu. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love. . -Lao Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33585]]></link><description><![CDATA[It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14349]]></link><description><![CDATA[The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16817]]></link><description><![CDATA[It destroys one's nerves to be amiable everyday to the same human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your owndoorstep is unclean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your owndoorstep is unclean.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No day is wholly unproductive of good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50145]]></link><description><![CDATA[No day is wholly unproductive of good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fashions fade, style is eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fashions fade, style is eternal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Smith and his penny both are black. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49915]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Smith and his penny both are black.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16549]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44937]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in every matter the consensus of opinion among all nations is to be regarded as the law of nature. [Lat., Omni autem in re consensio omnium gentium lex naturae putanda est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4968]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge. [Lat., Nulla manus belli, mutato judice, pura est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither side is guiltless if its adversary is appointed judge. [Lat., Nulla manus belli, mutato judice, pura est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63959]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the saying is, So many heades, so many wittes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44939]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the saying is, So many heades, so many wittes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate him to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate him to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take time enough: all other graces Will soon fill up their proper places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily. -Sally Koch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us daily. -Sally Koch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game just came to me, I just relaxed a little bit and let it come to me. I've been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36546]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game just came to me, I just relaxed a little bit and let it come to me. I've been hearing from all of the coaches that I go in spurts and stops, so tonight I got it in my head to just dominate the game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He jests at scars that never felt a wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51470]]></link><description><![CDATA[He jests at scars that never felt a wound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53098]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18074</guid></item></channel></rss>