<?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[We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Step by step and the thing is done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31402]]></link><description><![CDATA[Step by step and the thing is done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart of kings is unsearchable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart of kings is unsearchable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51990]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65530]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got in early, but that's not a factor. We just worried about today's game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35254]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got in early, but that's not a factor. We just worried about today's game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's going to be a fundraiser for victims of land mines, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34806]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's going to be a fundraiser for victims of land mines,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill vessels seldome miscarry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill vessels seldome miscarry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rare indulgence produces greater pleasure. [Lat., Voluptates commendat rarior usus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53846]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday. (atage 85). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure I'm for helping the elderly. I'm going to be old myself someday. (atage 85).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52502]]></link><description><![CDATA[To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57582]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   One can say: "I will, but my body does not obey ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   One can say: "I will, but my body does not obey me"; but not: "My will does not obey me".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will be in very good shape to try this case again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41218]]></link><description><![CDATA[will be in very good shape to try this case again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He didn't run for four months and when he got onto the paddock and ran he was very concerned because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32587]]></link><description><![CDATA[He didn't run for four months and when he got onto the paddock and ran he was very concerned because there was a fair amount of pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44008]]></link><description><![CDATA[And that all seas are made calme and still with oile; and therefore the Divers under the water doe spirt and sprinkle it abroad with their mouthes because it dulceth and allaieth the unpleasant nature thereof, and carrieth a light with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look! how he laughs and stretches out his arms, And opens wide his blue eyes upon thine,  To hail ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look! how he laughs and stretches out his arms, And opens wide his blue eyes upon thine,  To hail his father; while his little form   Flutters as winged with joy. Talk not of pain!    The childless cherubs well might envy thee     The pleasures of a parent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59704]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54846]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace at home, peace in the world ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace at home, peace in the world]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you make a bet, you're saying something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28608]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you make a bet, you're saying something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope that the School Board will see the wisdom of providing bus monitors, at least for all buses transporting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that the School Board will see the wisdom of providing bus monitors, at least for all buses transporting elementary school students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Equipment you'll leave at home, you'll need the most. You're always out of film when you'll have the best opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the most beautiful of all lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the most beautiful of all lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charity sees the need not the cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Charity sees the need not the cause.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31361]]></link><description><![CDATA[As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They know no country, own no lord, Their home the camp, their law the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45806]]></link><description><![CDATA[They know no country, own no lord, Their home the camp, their law the sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been working on getting Jessica more speed to the bar, and today everything came together for her. It was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34002]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been working on getting Jessica more speed to the bar, and today everything came together for her. It was truly a unique thing to see, and I'm so proud of her. It was like watching a real-life high jumper, not a student or a person just trying to score points.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square, Has made three separate journeys to Paris,  And her father assures me each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square, Has made three separate journeys to Paris,  And her father assures me each time she was there   That she and her friend Mrs. Harris . . .    Spent six consecutive weeks, without shopping     In one continuous round of shopping,-- . . .      And yet, though scarce three months have passed since the day       This merchandise went on twelve carts, up Broadway,        This same Miss McFlimsey of Madison Square         The last time we met was in utter despair          Becasue she had nothing whatever to wear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through  The growing waters; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't but say it is an awkward sight To see one's native land receding through  The growing waters; it unmans one quite,   Especially when life is rather new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not beoverjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not beoverjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diligence is the mother of good fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diligence is the mother of good fortune.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was very pretty irritated. It was kind of scary, having someone call you up like that and ask you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34644]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was very pretty irritated. It was kind of scary, having someone call you up like that and ask you to recant your statement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61496]]></link><description><![CDATA[I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8352]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8352</guid></item></channel></rss>