<?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[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21803]]></link><description><![CDATA[Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters. - Letters to Young Men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be a good game. Hannan played us tough in the playoffs the last two years ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39216]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be a good game. Hannan played us tough in the playoffs the last two years ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ but we won both games.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only God helps the badly dressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only God helps the badly dressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The balance of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The balance of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23503]]></link><description><![CDATA[A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice. [Fr., Le devoir des juges est de rendre justice, leur metier est de la differer; quelques uns savent leur devoir, et font leur metier.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is praised by some, blamed by others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50245]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is praised by some, blamed by others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56372]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trees go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24730]]></link><description><![CDATA[By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63873]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50545]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who gives himself airs of importance, exhibits the credentials of impotence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to bring it out into the open because it's still a dirty little secret in many households. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31484]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to bring it out into the open because it's still a dirty little secret in many households.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1874]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no ugly women, only lazy ones ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4044]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no ugly women, only lazy ones]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46521]]></link><description><![CDATA[... I believe the best test of a model is how well can the modeler answer the questions what do you know now that you did not know before? and how can you find out if it is true?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a true friend of Bangladesh cricket. To be honest he was the architect behind the change of domestic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34855]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a true friend of Bangladesh cricket. To be honest he was the architect behind the change of domestic structure. It was bad luck that we couldn't get him for a long time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lucky Craft Pointer 100 has certainly been the big seller with my customers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40399]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lucky Craft Pointer 100 has certainly been the big seller with my customers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18521]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sow our thoughts, and we reap our actions; we sow our actions, and we reap our habits; we sow our habits, and we reap our characters; we sow our characters, and we reap our destiny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  We may look into a church, almost any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  We may look into a church, almost any church, and discover someone who, though he is offered a gospel of love, must subtly convert it into a gospel of hate before he can receive it. The gospel of love -- with its emphasis upon brotherhood, equality before God, the dignity of every human being, and man's social responsibility toward man -- does not satisfy the lack that he urgently feels. That calls for something altogether different, for an assurance that he is superior, that he is right where others are wrong -- a kind of cosmic teacher's pet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10426]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are too lazy and comfortable to think for themselves and be their own judges obey the laws. Others sense their own laws within them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24164]]></link><description><![CDATA[And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44912]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13806]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch in life, The crouching vassal, to the tyrant wife,  Who has no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26555]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch in life, The crouching vassal, to the tyrant wife,  Who has no will but by her high permission;   Who has not sixpence but in her possession;    Who must to her his dear friend's secret tell;     Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell.      Were such the wife had fallen to my part,       I'd break her spirit or I'd break her heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55865]]></link><description><![CDATA[What doth gravity out of his bed at midnight? -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9181]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that truly makes him a man. Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man himself will not find peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under this bill, Duke Cunningham still would be able to get away with trading bribes for earmarks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under this bill, Duke Cunningham still would be able to get away with trading bribes for earmarks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52835]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525  God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight through hardship. But He leads! And amidst the hardship, He is nearer to them than ever before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  And I said to the man who stood at the gate of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England  And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light. that I may tread safely into the unknown." And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you don't know can't hurt you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51044]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you don't know can't hurt you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was fortunate to get something out over the plate that I could hit out of the park, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was fortunate to get something out over the plate that I could hit out of the park,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great masses of the people ... will more easily fall victims to a great lie than to a small one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17901]]></link><description><![CDATA[So live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man.  . . . .  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think that I shall never scan A tree as lovely as a man.  . . . .   A tree depicts divinest plan,    But God himself lives in a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower:  Hold infinity in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20950]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower:  Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,   And eternity in an hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logic is in the eye of the logician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25432]]></link><description><![CDATA[Logic is in the eye of the logician.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our audiences are all ages: kids who just love the show, love the movie, grandparents bringing their grandkids, it really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our audiences are all ages: kids who just love the show, love the movie, grandparents bringing their grandkids, it really covers the spectrum.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Waving the flag at the 1976 Olympics wasn't my idea. It was too much apple pie and ice cream. Not that I don't love my country, but I felt it was my victory up there, I put all the time into it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63737</guid></item></channel></rss>