<?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[I regret that I have but one life to give for my country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57012]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set the above their betters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An angel with a trumpet said, "Forever more, forever more,  The reign of violence is o'er!" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10789]]></link><description><![CDATA[An angel with a trumpet said, "Forever more, forever more,  The reign of violence is o'er!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3575]]></link><description><![CDATA[This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55090]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come Tuesday morning, everybody's going to be here working. As soon as the insurance company gives us the OK, we're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come Tuesday morning, everybody's going to be here working. As soon as the insurance company gives us the OK, we're going to go ahead and rebuild. We should have a slight transition for our customers and our help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing,  Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9923]]></link><description><![CDATA[But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing,  Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne,   The Cherub Contemplation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A warm smile is the universal language of kindness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64803]]></link><description><![CDATA[A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think this is a bearish report because average hourly earnings are ticking up significantly, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34920]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think this is a bearish report because average hourly earnings are ticking up significantly,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23112]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bring, bring the madding Bay, the drunken wine; The creeping, dirty, courtly Ivy join.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25700]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20090]]></link><description><![CDATA[A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same,  Whose name was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2910]]></link><description><![CDATA[And through the hall there walked to and fro A jolly yeoman, marshall of the same,  Whose name was Appetite; he did bestow   Both guestes and meate, whenever in they came,    And knew them how to order without blame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, the balance of nature decrees that a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Civil War is not ended: I question whether any serious civil war ever does end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13998]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28895]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you start a conversation with the assumptionthat you are right or that you must win,obviously it is difficult to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9065]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you start a conversation with the assumptionthat you are right or that you must win,obviously it is difficult to talk.He is author of the Citizenship Papers and answeredquestions at a Washington DC book store.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in,  When our angels stand in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26927]]></link><description><![CDATA[When promise and patience are wearing thin, When endurance is almost driven in,  When our angels stand in a waiting hush,   Remember the Marne and Ferdinand Foch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When she would write a song, she would call me and say, 'Do you want to hear something? What do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31091]]></link><description><![CDATA[When she would write a song, she would call me and say, 'Do you want to hear something? What do you think?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,  But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loveliness Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,  But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I feel so fortunate to be 22 right now and having three [grammy awards] under my belt, which is amazing.'' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3577]]></link><description><![CDATA["I feel so fortunate to be 22 right now and having three [grammy awards] under my belt, which is amazing.'']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20811]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are so dreadfully "devoted" to their wives are so apt, from mere habit, to get devoted to other people's wives as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62403]]></link><description><![CDATA[A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a very exciting deal that's good for Mirage's shareholders. This will change the face of the gaming industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37309]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a very exciting deal that's good for Mirage's shareholders. This will change the face of the gaming industry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26740]]></link><description><![CDATA[It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62947]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26840]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24405]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you lead on the people with correctness, who will dare not to be correct?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have 11 shows this year, which is the most in a long time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39228]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have 11 shows this year, which is the most in a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16176]]></link><description><![CDATA[What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body yet endures ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shame on the soul, to falter on the road of life while the body yet endures]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43898]]></link><description><![CDATA[A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64884]]></link><description><![CDATA[When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64287]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality, with all its difficulties, opportunities, and implications. The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity. The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17996]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17996</guid></item></channel></rss>