<?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[You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56815]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11332]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46611]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27010]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11871]]></link><description><![CDATA[God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just had to tell the stories of these amazing volunteers, who left their families and jobs in some case ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just had to tell the stories of these amazing volunteers, who left their families and jobs in some case to work around the clock at the most dangerous disaster site in historyÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€ÂGround Zero.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hardly wear any makeup. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hardly wear any makeup.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle. They look the same you dumb s---, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29455]]></link><description><![CDATA[How could you put methadone in a Dimetapp bottle. They look the same you dumb s---,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew our pitching staff was the backbone of the team. The question mark is our hitting. It isn't over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30467]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew our pitching staff was the backbone of the team. The question mark is our hitting. It isn't over yet. We've still got two weeks to go, and the offense has to come around. We're day to day with our offense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10621]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This year, our only issue is competitiveness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30205]]></link><description><![CDATA[This year, our only issue is competitiveness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free,  The shrine of each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2389]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free,  The shrine of each patriot's devotion,   A world offers homage to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo, Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, for one hour of blind old Dandolo, Th' octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. Agustin Marissa E ducation is bitter but the fruit is sweet. -Lord Chesterfield.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5127]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['T is strange that death should sing. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55803]]></link><description><![CDATA['T is strange that death should sing. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings His soul and body to their lasting rest. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm staying in shape. You never know what can happen. Right now it looks like I might play in Europe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37270]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm staying in shape. You never know what can happen. Right now it looks like I might play in Europe if I don't make the practice squad,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59772]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired - it can only be earned ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Respect cannot be learned, purchased or acquired - it can only be earned]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me,  Guesse I may, what I must be:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10971]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head t'wards me,  Guesse I may, what I must be:   First, I shall decline my head;    Secondly, I shall be dead:     Lastly, safely buryed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. [Lat., Opes invisae merito sunt forti viro,  Quia dives arca veram laudem intercipit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64191]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all tales 'tis the saddest--and more sad, Because it makes us smile.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45285]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8474]]></link><description><![CDATA[In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture doth admit of diverse interpretations, that no one cling to any particular exposition with such pertinacity that, if what he supposed to be the teaching of Scripture should afterward turn out to be clearly false, he should nevertheless still presume to put it forward, lest thereby the sacred Scriptures should be exposed to the derision of unbelievers and the way of salvation should be closed to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60167]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55641]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our elections are free, it's in the results where eventually we pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52959]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe to him who teaches men faster than they can learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1169]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always rise from the table with an appetite, and you will never sit down without one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66710]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9099]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthy social life is found only, when in the mirror of each soul the whole community finds its reflection, and when in the whole community the virtue of each one is living]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire.  Is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61422]]></link><description><![CDATA[What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire.  Is this too little?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you go out like that at home, it hurts. I had hoped to see a lot more effort today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35397]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you go out like that at home, it hurts. I had hoped to see a lot more effort today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of your life is the quality of your communication. (withyourself as well as with others). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of your life is the quality of your communication. (withyourself as well as with others).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thinking there was somebody there to help me, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41442]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thinking there was somebody there to help me,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that shakes falles not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49107]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that shakes falles not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not easy being green. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not easy being green.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55775]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phœbus in his strength,—a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50704]]></link><description><![CDATA[A light breath fans the flame, a violent gust extinguishes it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to go places that are not tourist traps, ... We have enough of those. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32848]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to go places that are not tourist traps, ... We have enough of those.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32848</guid></item></channel></rss>