<?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[Music inflames temperament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music inflames temperament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19052]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters. •Evander Holyfield   The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. •Deepak Chopra   Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft. •Ovid   Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. •Ralph Waldo Emerson   A heart in love with beauty never grows old. •Turkish Proverb   To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eve in the garden gives Adam a hard onAnd no one will pardon the snakeLook who invents him and later ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eve in the garden gives Adam a hard onAnd no one will pardon the snakeLook who invents him and later torments himThen makes us repent our mistakes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45281]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who sets off to the best advantage his every act and speech. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51667]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who sets off to the best advantage his every act and speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65752]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24317]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60457</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[A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26979]]></link><description><![CDATA[A retentive memory is a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick, So they call him for short, is a regular brick;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5625]]></link><description><![CDATA[In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick, So they call him for short, is a regular brick;  A metaphor taken--I have not the page aright--   From an ethical work by the Stagyrite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stripped of ethical rationalizations and philosophical pretensions, a crime is anything that a group in power chooses to prohibit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If love and sex are such natural phenomenons how come there are so many books on how to? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25836]]></link><description><![CDATA[If love and sex are such natural phenomenons how come there are so many books on how to?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, atthe huge waves of the seas, at the long course ofrivers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21845]]></link><description><![CDATA[People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, atthe huge waves of the seas, at the long course ofrivers, at the vast compass of the oceans, at the circular motion of thestars, and they pass themselves without even wondering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of violence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the worst form of violence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is nothing but judicious imitation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice in Britain today, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ageism is the most pervasive form of prejudice in Britain today,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15831]]></link><description><![CDATA[The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizenship comes first today in our crowded world ... No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society. To respect that contract is to be mature, to strengthen it is to be a good citizen, to do more than your share under it is noble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55616]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted. -The Merchant of Venice. Act. v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league coming into this game said Columbus didn't have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31574]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all due respect to Columbus, I think everyone around the league coming into this game said Columbus didn't have a shot. And I think that's what we felt coming in too. Maybe we were a little complacent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65934]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15405]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59870]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17758]]></link><description><![CDATA[More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The limits and boundaries (of the party) should not be crossed. However, the unrest within the party will not affect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The limits and boundaries (of the party) should not be crossed. However, the unrest within the party will not affect the development of the state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeatof habit by originality, overcomes everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeatof habit by originality, overcomes everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55335]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man that hath a tongue, I say, is no man, If with his tongue he cannot win a woman. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguisedas insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguisedas insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Around your skin, I tie and untie mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Around your skin, I tie and untie mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We already know the number of permits drawn by builders has decreased and is going to continue to decline because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34730]]></link><description><![CDATA[We already know the number of permits drawn by builders has decreased and is going to continue to decline because of the cool-down in the housing market. We won't need as many construction workers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But even the Christian, for all this satisfying and hopeful conviction, does not know the meaning of the mystery of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7952]]></link><description><![CDATA[But even the Christian, for all this satisfying and hopeful conviction, does not know the meaning of the mystery of life, and if he is wise he does not pretend to. He has enough light to light him on his way, but there are a great many gaps in his knowledge. When he says, "One day we shall understand", he is by no means always uttering a pious platitude. Quite frequently he is voicing a solid conviction, a genuine facet of hope. At present his vision is severely limited, and that is probably just as well, if his sanity is to be preserved. But when he is free of the limitations of temporal life, he has every hope of being able to know as surely as he is at present known.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34710]]></link><description><![CDATA[There have not been any big blips in inflation (so far this year).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lukewarm acceptance is more bewildering than outright rejection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can debate anything they want, even terrorists who misrepresent our faith, but the Prophet Muhammad is off limits. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36648]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can debate anything they want, even terrorists who misrepresent our faith, but the Prophet Muhammad is off limits. The attack on the prophet is an attack on us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your word is a s good as the Bank, Sir.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principal part of faith is patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principal part of faith is patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We saw Pang's application and it seemed she would be a very good fit for this family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30497]]></link><description><![CDATA[We saw Pang's application and it seemed she would be a very good fit for this family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53673]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53673</guid></item></channel></rss>