<?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[diamonds shine more brightly foiled by black velvet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/723]]></link><description><![CDATA[diamonds shine more brightly foiled by black velvet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47097]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essential characteristic of Western civilization that distinguishes it from the arrested and petrified civilizations of the East was and is its concern for freedom from the state. The history of the West, from the age of the Greek polis down to the present-day resistance to socialism, is essentially the history of the fight for liberty against the encroachments of the officeholders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21440]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love for work needs to be re-enthroned in our lives. Every family should have a plan for work that touches the life of each family member so that this eternal principle will be ingrained in their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253  The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think for yourself whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As along as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65102]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills, And I must minister the like to you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26725]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was sick, you gave me bitter pills, And I must minister the like to you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're seeing a lot of these. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34395]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're seeing a lot of these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5344]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24547]]></link><description><![CDATA[By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The attitude is right so they are adapting very quickly and we are delighted with the way the cricket has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37910]]></link><description><![CDATA[The attitude is right so they are adapting very quickly and we are delighted with the way the cricket has been going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1386]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13186]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world. That’s beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world. That’s beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56211]]></link><description><![CDATA[One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.   - William Hazlitt,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38662]]></link><description><![CDATA[All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38324]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51666]]></link><description><![CDATA[None make a greater show of sorrow than those who are most delighted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not remember days; we remember moments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27764]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not remember days; we remember moments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curfew must not ring to-night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curfew must not ring to-night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one way to console a widow. But remember the risk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61560]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one way to console a widow. But remember the risk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dote on his very absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dont let life change your goals, because achieving your goals can change your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are in some brown study. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58040]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are in some brown study.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest. - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.   - George Colman ("The Younger"), ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like two single gentlemen rolled into one.   - George Colman ("The Younger"),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only open to students now and we basically worked out an agreement with the AA where they are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33085]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only open to students now and we basically worked out an agreement with the AA where they are still going to pay for maintenance, but the CRC is in charge of operating the facility. They check people's BuzzCard, maintain the facility, and check for non-marking shoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As ofthis second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22234]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As ofthis second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jordan also believes all final status issues, including borders, refugees, Jerusalem and settlements, should be a matter for the parties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jordan also believes all final status issues, including borders, refugees, Jerusalem and settlements, should be a matter for the parties to decide. I am encouraged by what I've heard from you today, sir, that these issues are not to be prejudiced and should be mutually agreed by the parties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words of love, are works of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words of love, are works of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If two wrongs don't make a right, try three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57879]]></link><description><![CDATA[If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All reformers are bachelors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53203]]></link><description><![CDATA[All reformers are bachelors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is once borne, once must dy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49368]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is once borne, once must dy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be unconscionable for the Brattleboro Select Board to approve the evacuation plan without including these improvements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34203]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be unconscionable for the Brattleboro Select Board to approve the evacuation plan without including these improvements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7338]]></link><description><![CDATA[When religion is in the hands of the mere natural man, he is always the worse for it; it adds a bad heat to his own dark fire and helps to inflame his four elements of selfishness, envy, pride, and wrath. And hence it is that worse passions, or a worse degree of them are to be found in persons of great religious zeal than in others that made no pretenses to it. History also furnishes us with instances of persons of great piety and devotion who have fallen into great delusions and deceived both themselves and others. The occasion of their fall was this: ... They considered their whole nature as the subject of religion and divine graces; and therefore their religion was according to the workings of their whole nature, and the old man was as busy and as much delighted in it as the new.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65788]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49071]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49071</guid></item></channel></rss>