<?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[We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39982]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're at a critical time in the debate and we want the American public to receive a positive message. We don't want to do anything to create a backlash.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10561]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nympholepsy of some fond despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12006]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nympholepsy of some fond despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world inwhich it is overestimated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22183]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world inwhich it is overestimated.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47033]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to you, as good as you are, And here's to me, as bad as I am;  But as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59406]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to you, as good as you are, And here's to me, as bad as I am;  But as good as you are, and as bad as I am,   I am as good as your are, as bad as I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50605]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foule Toade hath a faire stone in his head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39554]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As so I penned It down, until at last it came to be,  For length and breadth, the bigness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3515]]></link><description><![CDATA[As so I penned It down, until at last it came to be,  For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55007]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success lies not in doing your own work, but in recognizing the right man to do it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/675]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5951]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23010]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints   He took upon Him the flesh in which we have sinned, that by wearing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints   He took upon Him the flesh in which we have sinned, that by wearing our flesh He might forgive sins; a flesh which He shares with us by wearing it, not by sinning in it. He blotted out through death the sentence of death, that by a new creation of our race in Himself He might sweep away the penalty appointed by the former Law... For Scripture had foretold that He who is God should die; that the victory and triumph of them that trust in Him lay in the fact that He, who is immortal and cannot be overcome by death, was to die that mortals might gain eternity. (Continued tomorrow)   ... St. Hilary, On the Trinity  November 2, 2000 Feast of All Souls   In this calm assurance of safety did my soul gladly and hopefully take its rest, and feared so little the interruption of death, that death seemed only a name for eternal life. And the life of this present body was so far from seeming a burden or affliction that it was regarded as children regard their alphabets, sick men their draughts, shipwrecked sailors their swim, young men the training for their profession, future commanders their first campaign -- that is, as an endurable submission to present necessities, bearing the promise of a blissful immortality.   ... St. Hilary, On the Trinity  November 3, 2000 Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres, Dominican Friar, 1639   People make mistakes when they believe. They may even want something so badly that passion creates its own evidences. Reprehensible though these habits are, they nonetheless fall within the pale of man's general effort to conform the self to things as they are. But when a person acknowledges the deficiency of evidences and yet goes right on believing, he defends a position that is large with the elements of its own destruction. Any brand of inanity can be defended on such a principle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14204]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Eternity) a moment standing still for ever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11671]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11004]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38330]]></link><description><![CDATA['How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless the differences within the transitional federal institutions are addressed, the current political impasse could grow into deeper divisions and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless the differences within the transitional federal institutions are addressed, the current political impasse could grow into deeper divisions and undermine the very institutions that the people of Somalia so ardently desire and the international community and the United Nations are willing to support,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With stores being built all around you reducing your sales and reducing your profit, you've got very little chance of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33637]]></link><description><![CDATA[With stores being built all around you reducing your sales and reducing your profit, you've got very little chance of working for 15 or 20 years and walking away with anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment - the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20433]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25848]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3409]]></link><description><![CDATA[I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing spoils a confession like repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23140]]></link><description><![CDATA[All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16428]]></link><description><![CDATA[While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trade knows neither friends or kindred ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trade knows neither friends or kindred]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing I like about being an actress is acting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're thrilled with the turnout. It's good to see the community rally around this festival. We planted the seeds several ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35124]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're thrilled with the turnout. It's good to see the community rally around this festival. We planted the seeds several years ago and have watched it grow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32860]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47453]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18570]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which we go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wrote a lot of prescriptions and he kept a lot for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36919]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wrote a lot of prescriptions and he kept a lot for himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42801]]></link><description><![CDATA[By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them. [Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But few prize honour more than money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51068]]></link><description><![CDATA[But few prize honour more than money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24420]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not lead by hitting people over the head-- that's assault, not leadership.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59698]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is with trifles and when he is off guard that a man best reveals his character.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17944]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17944</guid></item></channel></rss>