<?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[Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tempted fate will leave the loftiest star.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The word "Witch" carries so many negative connotations that many people wonder why we use the word at all. Yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61848]]></link><description><![CDATA[The word "Witch" carries so many negative connotations that many people wonder why we use the word at all. Yet to reclaim the word "Witch" is to reclaim our right, as women, to be powerful; as men, to know the feminine within as divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To deceive ones selfe is very easie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50002]]></link><description><![CDATA[To deceive ones selfe is very easie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25722]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57070]]></link><description><![CDATA[The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree which cannot be overestimated; as all high intellectual work is carried on by them, and on such work material progress of all kinds mainly depends, not to mention other and higher advantages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21119]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bane of all that dread the Devil! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12176]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bane of all that dread the Devil!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897   People talk about special providences. I believe in the providences, but not in the speciality. I do not believe that God lets the thread of my affairs go for six days, and on the seventh evening takes it up for a moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so. -The Two Gentleman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55329]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22554]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led….]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55845]]></link><description><![CDATA[And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29715]]></link><description><![CDATA[That, Your Excellency, is precisely the problem. As long as we are buying Russian oil, we are at their mercy. Japan must have its own resources.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18716]]></link><description><![CDATA[I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. Mary Baker Eddy -Ursula K. LeGuin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is only a number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is only a number.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44738]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I checked him out on Monday morning and he was concerned about his knee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34714]]></link><description><![CDATA[I checked him out on Monday morning and he was concerned about his knee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ready mony is a ready Medicine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ready mony is a ready Medicine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13813]]></link><description><![CDATA[The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The building is cool now, but in four to six hours, it can heat up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39759]]></link><description><![CDATA[The building is cool now, but in four to six hours, it can heat up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64799]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18995]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of mad folks in a narrow place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are born into the world of nature; our second birth is into theworld of spirit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22769]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are born into the world of nature; our second birth is into theworld of spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was something. As opposed to nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40018]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was something. As opposed to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination continually frustrates tradition, that is its function. -John Pfeiffer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People see the world not as it is, but as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14529]]></link><description><![CDATA[People see the world not as it is, but as they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3176]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397  Moreover, you are not to ask what each man's desserts are. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, Teacher, 397  Moreover, you are not to ask what each man's desserts are. Mercy is not ordinarily held to consist in pronouncing judgment on another man's deserts, but in relieving his necessities; in giving aid to the poor, not in inquiring how good they are.  .. St. Ambrose    December 8, 1997  There is a manifest want of spiritual influence on the ministry of the present day. I feel it in my own case and I see it in that of others. I am afraid there is too much of a low, managing, contriving, maneuvering temper of mind among us. We are laying ourselves out more than is expedient to meet one man's taste and another man's prejudices. The ministry is a grand and holy affair, and it should find in us a simple habit of spirit and a holy but humble indifference to all consequences. A leading defect in Christian ministers is want of a devotional habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The improvements in the tax structure in Lake County, including the tax settlement and the personal property change in House ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38697]]></link><description><![CDATA[The improvements in the tax structure in Lake County, including the tax settlement and the personal property change in House Bill 1858 were the primary factors in our decision to go forward with the rebuild, and they will permit this major investment to generate a competitive return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they want to have their wall, fine. What we want is to make sure that we let immigrants in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29353]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they want to have their wall, fine. What we want is to make sure that we let immigrants in legally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349  It behoves thee to love God wisely; and that may thou not do but if thou be wise. Thou art wise when thou art poor, without desire of this world, and despisest thyself for the love of Jesus Christ; and expendeth all thy wit and all thy might in His service. Whoso will love wisely, it behoves him to love lasting things lastingly, and passing things passingly; so that his heart be set and fastened on nothing but in God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome,  A ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2787]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mote it is to trouble the mind's eye. In the most high and palmy state of Rome,  A little ere the mightiest Julius fell,   The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead    Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets;     As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,      Disasters in the sun; and the moist star       Upon whose influence Neptune's empire stands        Was sick almost to doomsday with eclipse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was happy about it, because now I could just throw everything in one big bin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36399]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was happy about it, because now I could just throw everything in one big bin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Alban, first Martyr of Britain, c.209  We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a balance in the house. It's not like 24-7. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40564]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a balance in the house. It's not like 24-7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25324]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write? - Nobel Lecture 2000.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The priest is the personification of falsehood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The priest is the personification of falsehood]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35764]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's checks has bounced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36762]]></link><description><![CDATA[For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65749</guid></item></channel></rss>