<?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[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678  See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedience, and God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, c.678  See in the meantime that your faith bringeth forth obedience, and God in due time will cause it to bring forth peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by winding stair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57061]]></link><description><![CDATA[All rising to great place is by winding stair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is too short not to do a little practical joking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is too short not to do a little practical joking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the jasmine flower in her fair young breast, (O the faint, sweet smell of that jasmine flower!)  And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23125]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the jasmine flower in her fair young breast, (O the faint, sweet smell of that jasmine flower!)  And the one bird singing alone to his nest.   And the one star over the tower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[United we stand; divided we fall ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60120]]></link><description><![CDATA[United we stand; divided we fall]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11590]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more annoying than a low man raised to a high position. [Lat., Asperius nihil est humil cum surgit in altum.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The orange that is too hard squeezed yields a bitter juice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's exciting; I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13685]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's exciting; I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? By th' mass and 'tis, like a camel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel? By th' mass and 'tis, like a camel indeed.  Methinks it is like a weasel.   It is backed like a weasel.    Or like a whale.     Very like a whale.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man.  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man.  . . . .   A tree depicts divinest plan,    But God himself lives in a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to provide this support regularly, because at this stage there are still about 200,000 people who are refugees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to provide this support regularly, because at this stage there are still about 200,000 people who are refugees or displaced people in their home country. It is a huge proportion of the population that depends largely on international aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21327]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47205]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really just believe that they themselves are good for nothing. I mean, how many leftists are animated by a quite reasonable self-loathing? In their hearts they know that they are not going to become scholars or inventors or industrialists or even ordinary good kind people. So they need a way to achieve that smugness for which the left is so justifiably famous. They need a way to achieve self-esteem without merit. Well, there is politics. In an egalitarian world everything will be controlled by politics, and politics requires no merit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No vacation goes unpunished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59585]]></link><description><![CDATA[No vacation goes unpunished.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This represents a milestone for medical research. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33055]]></link><description><![CDATA[This represents a milestone for medical research.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6750]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always wished for this, but it\'s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always wished for this, but it\'s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let him love none and be by none beloved! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let him love none and be by none beloved!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48393]]></link><description><![CDATA[A promise is a cloud; fulfillment is rain]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her,  When from every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44898]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her,  When from every hill of flame   She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind. The difference lies not in the respective natures of savagery and civilization, but in their attendant circumstances, institutions, and so forth. The difference, therefore, does not operate in every sense, but it does in most of them. Even the most civilized peoples, in short, can be fired with passionate hatred for each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22647]]></link><description><![CDATA[What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr at Rome, c.269  God generally gives spiritual blessings and deliverances as He does temporal ones; that is, by the mediation of an active and vigorous industry. The fruits of the earth are the gift of God, and we pray for them as such; but yet we plant, and we sow, and we plough, for all that; and the hands which are sometimes lift up in prayer must at other times be put to the plough, or the husbandman must expect no crop. Everything must be effected in the way proper to its nature, with the concurrent influence of the divine grace, not to supersede the means, but to prosper and make them effectual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20517]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/530</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[It won't free up enormous amounts of capacity (on freeways) in the near term. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34594]]></link><description><![CDATA[It won't free up enormous amounts of capacity (on freeways) in the near term.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll have a fling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48623]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll have a fling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes it worth revealing, on national television, that you have the ethical standards of a slime-coated piece of industrial waste?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  In this age when it seems tacitly assumed that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944  In this age when it seems tacitly assumed that the Church is concerned only with another world than this, and in this world with nothing but individual conduct as bearing on prospects in that other world, hardly anyone reads the history of the Church in respect to its exercise of political influence. It is often assumed that the Church exercises little such influence and ought to exercise none; it is further assumed that this assumption is self-evident and has always been made by reasonable men. As a matter of fact the assumption is entirely modern and unjustified.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the industry standard to put forth tainted information to sell the most drugs, ... Whether that is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38395]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the industry standard to put forth tainted information to sell the most drugs, ... Whether that is a sustainable situation that investors can benefit from, I can't answer that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pools, that are used by people as they are meant to be used, are not making them (casinos) any money. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pools, that are used by people as they are meant to be used, are not making them (casinos) any money. We can offer a casino a revenue enhancement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The president's $1.6 trillion plan should be a floor, not a ceiling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The president's $1.6 trillion plan should be a floor, not a ceiling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus, what can we do, Poor rose and poet too,  Who both antedate our mission   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54428]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus, what can we do, Poor rose and poet too,  Who both antedate our mission   In an unprepared season?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never tried to be uber-sexy, ... I want to age gracefully. At 48 now, I've finally lost my baby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39841]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never tried to be uber-sexy, ... I want to age gracefully. At 48 now, I've finally lost my baby fat. I want to look nice and feel attractive. ... I grew my hair out and got it lightened for the simple reason that I'm pretty gray, and this means I don't have to go to the hairdresser as often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21031]]></link><description><![CDATA[No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43618]]></link><description><![CDATA[When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64923</guid></item></channel></rss>