<?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[When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9746]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2438]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392  Why all this strife and zeal about opinions? Death and life go on their own way, carry on their own work, and stay for no opinions... What a delusion it is therefore to grow gray-headed in balancing ancient and modern opinions; to waste the precious uncertain fire of life in critical zeal and verbal animosities; when nothing but the kindling of our working will into a faith that overcometh the world, into a steadfast hope, and ever-burning love and desire of the divine life, can hinder us from falling into eternal death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44481]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56640]]></link><description><![CDATA[I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26474]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I discovered a rare man. In days of confused identities, this man knew who he was. Nothing could deter or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I discovered a rare man. In days of confused identities, this man knew who he was. Nothing could deter or confuse him. ... This man lived his whole life fighting for freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43023]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the Big Blackfoot River above the mouth of Belmont Creek the banks are fringed by large Ponderosa pines. In the slanting sun of late afternoon the shadows of great branches reached across the river, and the trees took the river in their arms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gravity is not responsible for people falling in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children need models rather than critics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22699]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children need models rather than critics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He knows little who tells his wife all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61569]]></link><description><![CDATA[He knows little who tells his wife all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am absolutely going to make sure Jerry gets his ring back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am absolutely going to make sure Jerry gets his ring back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2800]]></link><description><![CDATA[People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance of the law excuses no man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance of the law excuses no man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than from the arguments of its opposers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connellsville made the big shots and you have to give them credit. When they got us by the throat, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Connellsville made the big shots and you have to give them credit. When they got us by the throat, they choked us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a one-way street, and we are not coming back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a one-way street, and we are not coming back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time brings all things to pass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time brings all things to pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go and do that. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most effective way to silence our guilty conscience is to convince ourselves and others that those we have sinned against are indeed depraved creatures, deserving every punishment, even extermination. We cannot pity those we have wronged, nor can we be indifferent toward them. We must hate and persecute them or else leave the door open to self-contempt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45167]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being wrong should not be associated with failure. It should instead be celebrated, for it brings someone to a new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being wrong should not be associated with failure. It should instead be celebrated, for it brings someone to a new level of understanding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land,  Than a successive title, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25958]]></link><description><![CDATA[And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land,  Than a successive title, long and dark,   Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treading softly like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot,  And feeling all along the garden wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treading softly like a thief, Lest the harsh shingle should grate underfoot,  And feeling all along the garden wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please. -As You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods too are fond of a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods too are fond of a joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deceive not thy Physitian, Confessor, nor Lawyer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deceive not thy Physitian, Confessor, nor Lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains;  Grasp it like a man of mettle,   And it soft as silk remains.    'Tis the same with common natures,     Use 'em kindly, they rebel;      But, be rough as nutmeg-graters,       And the rogues obey you well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.   - Lord Byron (George ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sound the loud timbrel o'er Egypt's dark sea! Jehovah hath triumphed--his people are free.   - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to talk and to do yogic breathing exercisesat the same time. Kissing, talking, eating, breathing..must drive carefully ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to talk and to do yogic breathing exercisesat the same time. Kissing, talking, eating, breathing..must drive carefully in each others' corridors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is said that gifts persuade even the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17435]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is said that gifts persuade even the gods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18463]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like the word 'indolence'. It makes my laziness seem classy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a drop in the bucket. It's only meaningful to the extent that it doesn't support the notion that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33985]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a drop in the bucket. It's only meaningful to the extent that it doesn't support the notion that the family thinks the sale of the company is imminent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53345]]></link><description><![CDATA[We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us -- loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe -- yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have no aversion to peer-to-peer technology. For us, it is in some respects kind of a promising delivery method. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32679]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have no aversion to peer-to-peer technology. For us, it is in some respects kind of a promising delivery method. We obviously have issues with its illegal uses, but to the extent that the use of the technology can be legitimized, we're all for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32679</guid></item></channel></rss>