<?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[It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19959]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good to be often reminded of the inconsistency of human nature, and to learn to look without wonder or disgust on the weaknesses which are found in the strongest minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21529]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48970]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. [Fr., Il est plus facile de paraitre digne des emplois qu'on n'a pas que de ceux que l'on exerce.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First of all I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23288]]></link><description><![CDATA[First of all I like John Kerry. I think he's intellectually curious and very thoughtful. I think he's deeply committed on issues like the environment. I think he's an internationalist, which I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the cold marble leapt to life a God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54934]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the cold marble leapt to life a God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19519]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world -- or the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's many an artist that comes to Nashville in hopes of doing the same thing I'm doing right now, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37319]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's many an artist that comes to Nashville in hopes of doing the same thing I'm doing right now,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism is a Christian heresy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism is a Christian heresy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skiing: I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skiing: I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Global Services division goes from strength to strength ... providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31604]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Global Services division goes from strength to strength ... providing BT with diversification away from pure telecoms services that remain under intense pricing pressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48097]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17823]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In excessive altercation, truth is lost. [Lat., Nimium altercando veritas amittitur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9974]]></link><description><![CDATA[In excessive altercation, truth is lost. [Lat., Nimium altercando veritas amittitur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21461]]></link><description><![CDATA[You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, there are times when something is legitimately not our fault. Blaming others, however, keeps us in a stuck state and is ultimately rough on our own self-esteem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59727]]></link><description><![CDATA[I survived that trouble so likewise may I survive this one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adultery - Two wrong people doing the right thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adultery - Two wrong people doing the right thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30382]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to emphasize that a large earthquake such as 1906 is not just a San Francisco quake, but a Northern California earthquake. Earthquakes greater than magnitude 7 are going to cause intense shaking over a large area ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â everyone needs to be prepared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45163]]></link><description><![CDATA[A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't need to reiterate the outrage and disgust with which we watched these events in New Orleans unfolding, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42287]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't need to reiterate the outrage and disgust with which we watched these events in New Orleans unfolding,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These falls are typically always frozen, but they're getting shorter as the snow pack increases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34483]]></link><description><![CDATA[These falls are typically always frozen, but they're getting shorter as the snow pack increases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not perfect, nay, but full of tender wants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44782]]></link><description><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men love money and security more, and creation and construction less, as they get older.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55647]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see, quoth he, how the world wags. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions are not trifles, but spring from trifles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who wish to sing always find a song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who wish to sing always find a song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debts and lies are generally mixed together ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debts and lies are generally mixed together]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that slaughter [battle] is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but [it does] not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that slaughter [battle] is a horrifying spectacle must make us take war more seriously, but [it does] not provide an excuse for gradually blunting our swords in the name of humanity. Sooner or later someone will come along with a sharp sword and hack off our arms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64139]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47756]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we have not what we love, we must love what we have. [Fr., Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime,  Il faut aimer ce que l'on a.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27005]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65391]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25664]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  There are, of course, interesting questions that can be asked about the nature of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mark the Evangelist  There are, of course, interesting questions that can be asked about the nature of the transformation which our Lord's body underwent in his resurrection, and if we know anything about physics and biology we are quite likely to ask them. But, since we are concerned with an occurrence which is by hypothesis unique in certain relevant aspects, we are most unlikely to be able to give confident answers to them. [Paul M.] van Buren's remarks about biology and the twentieth century are nothing more than rhetoric or, at best, are simply empirical statements about his own psychology. The first century knew as well as the twentieth that dead bodies do not naturally come to life again, and no amount of twentieth-century knowledge about natural processes can tell us what may happen by supernatural means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24165]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much lies in Laughter: the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25158</guid></item></channel></rss>