<?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[Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,  And therefore are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves,  And therefore are they very dangerous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best is the cheapest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best is the cheapest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is reason gone mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is reason gone mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23744]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they talk about values, they’re talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In jealousy there is more of self-love than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23180]]></link><description><![CDATA[In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47536]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A., M. D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. O. B.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is time for doing something useful; this leisure the diligent man will obtain, but the lazy man never]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail;  We'll pull his plumes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while And like a peacock sweep along his tail;  We'll pull his plumes and take away his train,   If Dauphin and the rest will be but ruled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possiblylive long enough to make them all yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22235]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possiblylive long enough to make them all yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks  Round from his parted forelock manly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54485]]></link><description><![CDATA[His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks  Round from his parted forelock manly hung   Clustering but not beneath his shoulders broad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26254]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Nathan said to David, Thou art the Man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good deed is like peeing in your pants. Everyone knows you did it, but only you can feel it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11656]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good deed is like peeing in your pants. Everyone knows you did it, but only you can feel it's warmth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once the Xerox copier was invented, diplomacy died.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you judge people, you have no time to love them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2160]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you judge people, you have no time to love them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9078]]></link><description><![CDATA[We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hurt myself todayTo see if I still feelI focus on the painThe only thing that's realThe needle tears a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15470]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hurt myself todayTo see if I still feelI focus on the painThe only thing that's realThe needle tears a holeThe old familiar stingTry to kill it all awayBut I remember everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63754]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet the answer Echo makes To music at night,  When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13297]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet the answer Echo makes To music at night,  When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,   And far away, o'er lawns and lakes,    Goes answering light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3680]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45721]]></link><description><![CDATA[For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63723]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The master in the art of living makes little distinction between hiswork and his play, his labor and his leisure, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21089]]></link><description><![CDATA[The master in the art of living makes little distinction between hiswork and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, hisinformation and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knowswhich is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever hedoes, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To himhe's always doing both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1825]]></link><description><![CDATA[We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There is a misplaced sense of loyalty which makes many Christians feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095  There is a misplaced sense of loyalty which makes many Christians feel reluctant to come out in open opposition to anything that calls itself by the same name, or uses words like "God" and "Christ"; even Christians who in practice dislike superstition as much as I do still often treat it as a minor aberration to be hushed up rather than a radical perversion to be denounced.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;  No splendid poverty, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me, indulgent gods! with mind serene, And guiltless heart, to range the sylvan scene;  No splendid poverty, no smiling care,   No well-bred hate, or servile grandeur, there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you good men and true? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you good men and true? -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. [Psalms 51:5]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold, I was shapened in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. [Psalms 51:5].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51396]]></link><description><![CDATA[What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your work; not just your work and no more, but a little more for the lavishing's sake -- that little more which is worth all the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are more important than tools. If you don't believe so, put a good tool into the hands of a poor workman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scripture will ultimately suffice for a saving knowledge of God only when its certainty is founded upon the inward persuasion of the Holy Spirit. Indeed, these human testimonies which exist to confirm it will not be vain if, as secondary aids to our feebleness, they follow that chief and highest testimony. But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48790]]></link><description><![CDATA[And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66187]]></link><description><![CDATA[A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[British people don't feel they can tear themselves away from their desk, and have developed a very functional relationship with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42184]]></link><description><![CDATA[British people don't feel they can tear themselves away from their desk, and have developed a very functional relationship with food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53075]]></link><description><![CDATA[In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53075</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death came with friendly care;The opening bud to heaven conveyed,And bade it blossom there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death came with friendly care;The opening bud to heaven conveyed,And bade it blossom there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judicial independence is the bulwark of our system. It gives life to the words of the Constitution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Judicial independence is the bulwark of our system. It gives life to the words of the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect. [Fr., Nul n'est content de sa fortune;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54724]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect. [Fr., Nul n'est content de sa fortune;  Ni mecontent de son esprit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His shortcoming is his long staying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4729]]></link><description><![CDATA[His shortcoming is his long staying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is a safe kind of high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is a safe kind of high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee is a foole that thinks not that another thinks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee is a foole that thinks not that another thinks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46549]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know what a camera is? A mirror with memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46549</guid></item></channel></rss>