<?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[I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66072]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11284]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; When man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity begins at home. [Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity begins at home. [Lat., Proximus sum egomet mihi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18398]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.  [Ger., Im engen Kreis verengert sich der Sinn.   Es wachst der Mensch mit seinen grossern Zwecken.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My dancing days are done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11022]]></link><description><![CDATA[My dancing days are done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16685]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"!" ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is impossible, the word itself says "I'm possible"!"]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The builders have no right to construct any building without the approval of the layout plans by the authorities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28538]]></link><description><![CDATA[The builders have no right to construct any building without the approval of the layout plans by the authorities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29880]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as we are concerned, we Syria have not changed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams and visions are infused into men for their advantage and instruction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams and visions are infused into men for their advantage and instruction]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Anderson understands that Evelyn runs the risk of seeming a little too saintly.] That's why the character of Tuff is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37205]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Anderson understands that Evelyn runs the risk of seeming a little too saintly.] That's why the character of Tuff is such a great sounding board, because she's the one who says, `How can you bear it?' ... And Evelyn Ryan, being who she was, could find satisfaction in any situation that she was living in. She found the magic, and the profundity, in the act of raising children. And, oh man, I couldn't do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be!  He would dress me up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be!  He would dress me up in silks so fine,   And praise and toast me at his wine."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since I was a little kid I'd read these adventure books. I'd read about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since I was a little kid I'd read these adventure books. I'd read about Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Every time my dad moved to a new military base, the first thing I'd do was climb the highest hill around, which usually wasn't very high.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't thinking about the championship but was just focusing on the two triple axels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't thinking about the championship but was just focusing on the two triple axels.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53494]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25260]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.   - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater"),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is long past time that the President and this Administration show its evidence. . .Today, we are introducing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47150]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is long past time that the President and this Administration show its evidence. . .Today, we are introducing a Resolution of Inquiry to compel the White House to substantiate its claims. The President led the nation to war, and spent at least $63 billion on that war, on the basis of these unfounded assertions. ~ Rep. Dennis Kucinich http://www.kucinich.us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of too much learning become mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of too much learning become mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suddenly it looks like the policy is not tough diplomacy, but the path to war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suddenly it looks like the policy is not tough diplomacy, but the path to war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60111]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is a form of silence, not noiselessness. It is the silence of contemplation such as occurs when we let our minds rest on a rosebud, a child at play, a Divine mystery, or a waterfall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of getting things done is to act! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47532]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of getting things done is to act!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44808]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness is the atmosphere in which all things thrive]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solon wished everybody to be ready to take everybody else's part; but surely Chilo was wiser in holding that public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solon wished everybody to be ready to take everybody else's part; but surely Chilo was wiser in holding that public affairs go best when the laws have much attention and the orators none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9054]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they spoke they would discover that their souls had only separated by phantoms and delusions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. [Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57341]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which is repeated too often becomes insipid and tedious. [Fr., Tout ce qu'on dit de trop est fade et rebutant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52272]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. interest rates aren't going to necessarily support the dollar anymore. Each interest rate hike is having less impact on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33750]]></link><description><![CDATA[U.S. interest rates aren't going to necessarily support the dollar anymore. Each interest rate hike is having less impact on the currency.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52294]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What looks like a giving hand is often a holding on for dear life. Take away our holy duties and you leave our lives puny and meaningless. There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear follows crime, and is its punishment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear follows crime, and is its punishment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13151]]></link><description><![CDATA[God expects from men something more than at such times, and that it were much to be wished for the credit of their religion as well as the satisfaction of their conscience that their Easter devotions would in some measure come up to their Easter dress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11018]]></link><description><![CDATA[You've got to dance like nobody's watching and love like it's never going to hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't want a vote on this tonight, Bert, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38125]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't want a vote on this tonight, Bert,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want to end up with a situation where we both have a very stringent self-regulatory regime, [but then] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32871]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want to end up with a situation where we both have a very stringent self-regulatory regime, [but then] we have to answer to their data privacy regime as well. The devil is in the details, and it's up to them to provide those details.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clearly, the[former] governor of Massachusetts has a lot of homework to do on the problems facing our state. When he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clearly, the[former] governor of Massachusetts has a lot of homework to do on the problems facing our state. When he finally gets around to it, he'll see that the problems we face require real solutions rather than stale political rhetoric.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58172]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is successful who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, who has gained the respect of the intelligent men and the love of children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who leaves the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best he had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemplation makes a rare turkey cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemplation makes a rare turkey cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kenny got hot early in the game and then started forcing things a little. But he really has become much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kenny got hot early in the game and then started forcing things a little. But he really has become much more of a complete player who brings the ball up, scores from the outside, drives to the basket and really has started to hit the boards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61147]]></link><description><![CDATA[The day when nobody comes back from a war it will be because the war has at last been properly organized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61147</guid></item></channel></rss>