<?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[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61833]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When rogues like these (a sparrow cries) To honours and employments rise,  I court no favor, ask no place, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10194]]></link><description><![CDATA[When rogues like these (a sparrow cries) To honours and employments rise,  I court no favor, ask no place,   For such preferment is disgrace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar, and 't shall go hard  But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20917]]></link><description><![CDATA[For 'tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his own petar, and 't shall go hard  But I will delve one yard below their mines   And blow them at the moon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47399]]></link><description><![CDATA[A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5171]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All countries embraced some kind of change. So many parts of the world understood that this is a new world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29107]]></link><description><![CDATA[All countries embraced some kind of change. So many parts of the world understood that this is a new world order, except the Arab world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63918]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25501]]></link><description><![CDATA[To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom governs the world; it is the tyrant of our feeling and our manners, and rules us with the imperious hand of a despot]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[if you are married, there exists no comfort in being intelligent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39648]]></link><description><![CDATA[if you are married, there exists no comfort in being intelligent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most bosses know instinctively that their power depends more on employee's compliance than on threats or sanctions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books - what other men do not say in whole books.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is a friend who will never betray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is a friend who will never betray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the outreach of self toward completion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the outreach of self toward completion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and proneness to credulity. The urge to escape our real self is also an urge to escape the rational and the obvious. The refusal to see ourselves as we are develops a distaste for facts and cold logic. There is no hope for the frustrated in the actual and the possible. Salvation can come to them only from the miraculous, which seeps through a crack in the iron wall of inexorable reality. They asked to be deceived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost;  When character is lost, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25578]]></link><description><![CDATA[When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; When health is lost, something is lost;  When character is lost, all is lost!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9774]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3104]]></link><description><![CDATA["Can you do addition?" the White Queen asked. "What's one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one and one?" "I don't know," said Alice. "I lost count."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water.  Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music,   That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are very health conscious. Certainly I am and people are definitely into the organic health stuff because we all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31151]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are very health conscious. Certainly I am and people are definitely into the organic health stuff because we all want to live longer, stay healthy and enjoy life more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not absence death to those who love? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not absence death to those who love?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12765]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24884]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, and misfortunes of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, But with a crafty madness keeps aloof  When we would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, But with a crafty madness keeps aloof  When we would bring him on to some confession   Of his true state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main worry short term is the drop in the Nasdaq. The U.S. didn't back up Argentina today, so there's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35003]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main worry short term is the drop in the Nasdaq. The U.S. didn't back up Argentina today, so there's still a bit of worry about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the worse appear the better reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The various moral and theological and sociological disputes of the day, however progressively resolved with ecclesiastical connivance, have nothing to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The various moral and theological and sociological disputes of the day, however progressively resolved with ecclesiastical connivance, have nothing to say to this spiritual hunger, which is not assuaged by legalized abortion and homosexuality, solaced by contraception, or relieved by majority rule. Nor will it take comfort in the thought that God is dead, or that mankind has come of age, or even in ecumenical negotiations for writing off Papal Infallibility against the validity of Anglican Orders. The only means of satisfying it remains that bread of life which Jesus offered, with the promise that those who are of it should never hunger again. The promise stands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors To find out thet it looks like rain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a mind like Dannel's, fact, ez big ez all ou'doors To find out thet it looks like rain arter it fairly pours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64943]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have raced against the clock since I went into advertising at the age of eighteen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3941]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody can do it for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1116]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody can do it for you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This just sort of adds insult to injury, in many respects, ... They're trying to get Pascagoula up and running, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37551]]></link><description><![CDATA[This just sort of adds insult to injury, in many respects, ... They're trying to get Pascagoula up and running, and then this gets whacked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41542]]></link><description><![CDATA[The camp was stormed about 4 a.m. this morning. They were repelled by Bangladeshi soldiers ... I know there are four from among the attackers (who were killed).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hastiness is the beginning of wrath, and its end repentance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45531]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a neighbor and trade partner, we are happy to provide assistance to the United States at the time of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30109]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a neighbor and trade partner, we are happy to provide assistance to the United States at the time of the disaster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30109</guid></item></channel></rss>