<?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[The scientist who lives laborious days in the disinterested pursuit of truth, the artist who will starve in a garret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scientist who lives laborious days in the disinterested pursuit of truth, the artist who will starve in a garret if only he may express the beauty he has seen, the martyr who will obey God in the scorn of consequence, are all religious men or, at least, are men who illustrate that principle which lies behind religion. Truth, Beauty, Goodness -- these are sacred, the object of man's true love and reverence. He to whom nothing is sacred, all questions are open, and the distinction between right and wrong is blurred, is an enslaved, not an emancipated, spirit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is like the relation between hand and eyes;it is like when the hand get hurt,eye cries; and when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is like the relation between hand and eyes;it is like when the hand get hurt,eye cries; and when the eye cries, the hand wipes .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel Johnson County is the best location for the rain forest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel Johnson County is the best location for the rain forest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever makes two ears of corn, or two blades of grass to grow where only one grew before, deserves better of mankind, and does more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55081]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is well said again, And 't is a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56037]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is well said again, And 't is a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds. -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cocktail party... is a device either for getting rid of social obligations hurriedly en masse or for making overtures toward more serious social relationships, as in the etiquette of whoring.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53628]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love. If you're so consumed by hatred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The opposite of love is apathy, and hate is really the same as love. If you're so consumed by hatred for someone, you might as well be loving them, because you're thinking about them for the same amount of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is Too Slow for those who Wait,  Too Swift for those who Fear,   Too Long for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is Too Slow for those who Wait,  Too Swift for those who Fear,   Too Long for those who Grieve,    Too Short for those who Rejoice;     But for those who Love,      Time is not.   - Henry Jackson van Dyke,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24338]]></link><description><![CDATA[A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through this toilsome world, alas! Once and only once I pass; If a kindness I may show, If a good deed I may do To a suffering fellow man, Let me do it while I can. No delay, for it is plain I shall not pass this way again. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46747]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63583]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3075]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mutually giving and receiving aid, They set each other off, like light and shade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mutually giving and receiving aid, They set each other off, like light and shade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53258]]></link><description><![CDATA[In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you wonder what happened to them. There are some that you wonder if they ever think about you. And then there are some you wish you never had to think about again. But you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[fed up with being their whipping boy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38226]]></link><description><![CDATA[fed up with being their whipping boy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although it is unlikely that the Iranian nuclear dispute will lead to a curtailment of oil shipments, there is clearly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although it is unlikely that the Iranian nuclear dispute will lead to a curtailment of oil shipments, there is clearly a large premium on oil prices due to the ongoing tensions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18604]]></link><description><![CDATA[People love others not for who they are but for how they make them feel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't change your fate, change your attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3455]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52212]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was our father ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â no one man can replace him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36746]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was our father ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â no one man can replace him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  If I want only pure water, what does it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6939]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of François de Sales, Bishop of Geneva, Teacher, 1622  If I want only pure water, what does it matter to me whether it be brought in a vase of gold or of glass? What is it to me whether the will of God be presented to me in tribulation or consolation, since I desire and seek only the Divine will?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three things cannot long be hidden the sun, the moon, and the truth. -Confucious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three things cannot long be hidden the sun, the moon, and the truth. -Confucious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men dislike a teaching which lays upon them strict moral requirements that check their natural desires. Yet they like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men dislike a teaching which lays upon them strict moral requirements that check their natural desires. Yet they like to be considered as Christians, and listen willingly to the hypocrites who preach that our righteousness is only that God holds us to be righteous, even if we are bad people, and that our righteousness is without us and not in us, for, according to such teaching, they can be counted as holy people. Woe to those who preach that men of sinful walk can not be considered pious; most are furious when they hear this, as we see and experience, and would like all such preachers to be driven away or even killed; but where that cannot be done, they strengthen their hypocrite preachers with praise, comfort, presents and protection, so that they may go on happily and give no place to the truth, however clear it may be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For idleness is an appendix to nobility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20329]]></link><description><![CDATA[For idleness is an appendix to nobility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are digging our graves with our teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22100]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are digging our graves with our teeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given the significant decline in our stock price over the last few weeks, the company believes that the purchase of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given the significant decline in our stock price over the last few weeks, the company believes that the purchase of its stock represents a very attractive investment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suggestions provide framework of how to change our culture. We are going through semester plans and are trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suggestions provide framework of how to change our culture. We are going through semester plans and are trying to figure out how to use the suggestions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were a lot of players expecting a special dividend -- myself included -- and that is a bit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38449]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were a lot of players expecting a special dividend -- myself included -- and that is a bit of a disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies blow;  A heavenly paradise is that place, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14854]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies blow;  A heavenly paradise is that place,   Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow.    There cherries grow that none may buy,     Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not the winding up witnesses, And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?  For witnesses, like watches, go  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not the winding up witnesses, And nicking, more than half the bus'ness?  For witnesses, like watches, go   Just as they're set, too fast or slow;    And where in Conscience they're strait-lac'd,     'Tis ten to one that side is cast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27189]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28731]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you forget the last two weeks of deliberations and pretend they never happened. That, obviously, is an impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're kids, but we still want our voices heard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38015]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're kids, but we still want our voices heard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That dire disease, whose ruthless power Withers the beauty's transient flower. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12485]]></link><description><![CDATA[That dire disease, whose ruthless power Withers the beauty's transient flower.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Julius Caesar divorced his wife Pompeia, but declared at the trial that he knew nothing of what was alleged against her and Clodius. When asked why, in that case, he had divorced her, he replied: "Because I would have the chastity of my wife clear even of suspicion."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He lives who dies to win a lasting name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43646]]></link><description><![CDATA[He lives who dies to win a lasting name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43646</guid></item></channel></rss>