<?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[There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59984]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message  An host ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though it be honest, it is never good To bring bad news; give to a gracious message  An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell   Themselves when they be felt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord of human kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord of human kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should not grave Philosophy be styled. Herself, a dreamer of a kindred stock,  A dreamer, yet more spiritless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should not grave Philosophy be styled. Herself, a dreamer of a kindred stock,  A dreamer, yet more spiritless and dull?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. [Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none. [Lat., Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50260]]></link><description><![CDATA[I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Real estate is a big concern, and we're going to have to watch it carefully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real estate is a big concern, and we're going to have to watch it carefully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill dyet was the mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoever was the father of a disease, an ill dyet was the mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59250]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So 'ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout  Of petulant capricious sects,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53473]]></link><description><![CDATA[So 'ere the storm of war broke out, Religion spawn'd a various rout  Of petulant capricious sects,   That maggots of corrupted texts,    That first run all religion down,     And after every swarm its own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26045]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What wound did ever heal but my degrees? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62369]]></link><description><![CDATA[What wound did ever heal but my degrees?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't use others as a crutch, for we must all go our own ways at one point or another, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't use others as a crutch, for we must all go our own ways at one point or another, and when they go you will inevitably fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24903]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52831]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Innocence plays in the backyard of ignorance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important thing is socialization. They take the dogs everywhere, to church, to restaurants, to malls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important thing is socialization. They take the dogs everywhere, to church, to restaurants, to malls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This power of being outwardly genial and inwardly austere, which is the real Christian temper, depends entirely upon the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7856]]></link><description><![CDATA[This power of being outwardly genial and inwardly austere, which is the real Christian temper, depends entirely upon the time set apart for personal religion. It is always achieved if courageously and faithfully sought; and there are no heights of love and holiness to which it cannot lead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11596]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the outcome of a battle]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Continuing a short series on authenticity: For the preacher's merit or demerit, It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678 Continuing a short series on authenticity: For the preacher's merit or demerit, It were to be wished the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessel, holding treasure, Which lies as safe in a golden ewer; But the main thing is, does it hold good measure? Heaven soon sets right all other matters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49815]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have to find out what is exactly happening. We have all heard about this then we have to see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35208]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have to find out what is exactly happening. We have all heard about this then we have to see if it is confirmed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53508]]></link><description><![CDATA[With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't even thinking about a flush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35644]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't even thinking about a flush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselvesagainst the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21945]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselvesagainst the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47159]]></link><description><![CDATA[To those who feel that their values are the values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because such systems respond to a diversity of values. The more successfully such systems respond to diversity, the more "chaos" there will be, by definition, according to the standards of any specific set of values- other than diversity or freedom as values. Looked at another way, the more self-righteous observers there are, the more chaos (and "waste") will be seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We spend an awful lot of money training people and developing them in these underperforming schools, but at the end ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29425]]></link><description><![CDATA[We spend an awful lot of money training people and developing them in these underperforming schools, but at the end of the year, these teachers are taking the training and experience and moving on to better districts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The selfsame heaven That frowns on me looks sadly upon him. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56024]]></link><description><![CDATA[The selfsame heaven That frowns on me looks sadly upon him. -King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44130]]></link><description><![CDATA[A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15105]]></link><description><![CDATA[What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58092]]></link><description><![CDATA[A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomparable writing. Quite frankly, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38549]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the highest tribute we can pay him, our appreciation for his superlative writing, his incomparable writing. Quite frankly, I've never experienced writing like this before, except for 'Fences,' something that addresses me as an individual, addresses me as a black man and addresses the history of the African-American culture and the African-American experience in this country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the music of Beethoven, Bach and Charlie Parker, the Beatles' music was built to last - proving that a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the music of Beethoven, Bach and Charlie Parker, the Beatles' music was built to last - proving that a thing of beauty is a joy forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46196]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still  Before the storm, in the long interval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59686]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was the noise Of ancient trees falling while all was still  Before the storm, in the long interval   Between the gathering clouds and that light breeze    Which Germans call the Wind's bride.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold, the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul. -Democritus.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone needs to stop saying 'I'm a Republican' or 'I'm a Democrat' and just be good Christians. But don't worry, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone needs to stop saying 'I'm a Republican' or 'I'm a Democrat' and just be good Christians. But don't worry, the Gulf Coast is going to be rebuilt, and it's going to be great. God works in mysterious ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nunc scio quit sit amor."Lat., "Now I know what love is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nunc scio quit sit amor."Lat., "Now I know what love is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4278]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65836]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the seed of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the seed of money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21694</guid></item></channel></rss>