<?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[O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne  My part of evil only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60882]]></link><description><![CDATA[O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne  My part of evil only.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55318]]></link><description><![CDATA[What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled? What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office, or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered? What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon? What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10678]]></link><description><![CDATA[We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1248]]></link><description><![CDATA[At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I answer the heroic question "Death, where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I answer the heroic question "Death, where is they sting?" with "It is here in my heart and mind and memories."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presence is more than just being there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Presence is more than just being there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research is the art of seeing what everyone else has seen, and doing what no-one else has done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is the art of seeing what everyone else has seen, and doing what no-one else has done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fans want electrifying content that allows them to relive the emotional experience they get from live events. ... Usher is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fans want electrifying content that allows them to relive the emotional experience they get from live events. ... Usher is the single most electrifying entertainer of his generation and Truth Tour is another example of Best Buy's commitment to use technology to deliver fans the best seat in the house from the convenience of their homes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to overdo luxury ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to overdo luxury]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12103]]></link><description><![CDATA[One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hark! that's the nightingale, Telling the self-same tale  Her song told when this ancient earth was young:   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hark! that's the nightingale, Telling the self-same tale  Her song told when this ancient earth was young:   So echoes answered when her song was sung    In the first wooded vale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloriously drunk, obey the important call. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gloriously drunk, obey the important call.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44290]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47654]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best defense is a good offence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best defense is a good offence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue   Do paint ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10814]]></link><description><![CDATA[When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white  And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue   Do paint the meadows with delight,    The cuckoo then, on every tree,     Mocks married men: for thus sings he, Cuckoo;      Cuckoo, cuckoo: O, word of fear,       Unpleasing to a married ear!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birth is the beginning of death ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birth is the beginning of death]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Nationally), species such as the bald eagle have made a comeback because of targeted efforts. But unlike the federal program, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30526]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Nationally), species such as the bald eagle have made a comeback because of targeted efforts. But unlike the federal program, Georgia does not have an individual recovery plan for each protected species.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - "to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - "to spew out paper."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13135]]></link><description><![CDATA[How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12851]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't listen to people who tell you what to do! Listen to people who encourage you to do what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't listen to people who tell you what to do! Listen to people who encourage you to do what you know is right! Because you have one life to live so live it your way!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65042]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11496]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up, ... As ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32898]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up, ... As soon as you drift out of Dade County you find that the Alice in Wonderland world ends at the Dade-Broward line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything's been expanded from paints to plumbing to electrical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything's been expanded from paints to plumbing to electrical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But we must believe that Judas, who repented even to agony, who repented so that his high-prized life, self, soul, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8250]]></link><description><![CDATA[But we must believe that Judas, who repented even to agony, who repented so that his high-prized life, self, soul, became worthless in his eyes and met with no mercy at his own hand, -- must we believe he could find no mercy in such a God? I think when Judas fled from his hanged and fallen body, he fled to the tender help of Jesus, and found it -- I say not how. He was in a more hopeful condition now than during any moment of his past life, for he had never repented before. But I believe that Jesus loved Judas even when he was kissing Him with traitor's kiss; and I believe that He was his Saviour still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Johann Sebastian Bach, musician, 1750   Theologians have felt no hesitation in founding a system of speculative thought on the teachings of Jesus; and yet Jesus was never an inhabitant of the realm of speculative thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64009]]></link><description><![CDATA[A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents must have had tough decisions to make, but I was never called on to bear witness to their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53863]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents must have had tough decisions to make, but I was never called on to bear witness to their anxiety. To some people that might sound like repression, but I think repression can be a positive value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred is like fire -- it makes even light rubbish deadly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8724]]></link><description><![CDATA[How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/605]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10964]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We consider this normal revenge against Israeli aggression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28319]]></link><description><![CDATA[We consider this normal revenge against Israeli aggression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are borne along by the violence of their rage, and think it is a waste of time to ask ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2545]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are borne along by the violence of their rage, and think it is a waste of time to ask who are guilty. [Lat., Trahit ipse furoris  Impetus, et visum est lenti quaesisse nocentum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   The Christian is the real radical of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   The Christian is the real radical of our generation, for he stands against the monolithic, modern concept of truth as relative. But too often, instead of being the radical, standing against the shifting sands of relativism, he subsides into merely maintaing the status quo. If it is true that evil is evil, that God hates it to the point of the cross, and that there is a moral law fixed in what God is in Himself, then Christians should be the first into the field against what is wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Annuit coepis. [He (God) approves our undertakings.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Annuit coepis. [He (God) approves our undertakings.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1698</guid></item></channel></rss>