<?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[The Fir-Tree and the BrambleA fir-tree said boastingly to the Bramble, You are useful for nothing at all; while I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fir-Tree and the BrambleA fir-tree said boastingly to the Bramble, You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses. The Bramble answered: 'You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir-Tree. Better poverty without care, than riches with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain is never permanent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain is never permanent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it's better to be thoroughly sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3889]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it's better to be thoroughly sure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60533]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31752]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31752</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  No man can be without his god. If he have not the true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6647]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Peter & Paul, Apostles  No man can be without his god. If he have not the true God to bless and sustain him, he will have some false god to delude and to betray him. The Psalmist knew this, and therefore he joined so closely forgetting the name of our God and holding up our hands to some strange god. For every man has something in which he hopes, on which he leans, to which he retreats and retires, with which he fills up his thoughts in empty spaces of time, when he is alone, when he lies sleepless on his bed, when he is not pressed with other thoughts; to which he betakes himself in sorrow or trouble, as that from which he shall draw comfort and strength -- his fortress, his citadel, his defence; and has not this a good right to be called his god? Man was made to lean on the Creator; but if not on Him, then he leans on the creature in one shape or another. The ivy cannot grow alone: it must twine round some support or other; if not the goodly oak, then the ragged thorn -- round any dead stick whatever, rather than have no stay or support at all. It is even so with the heart and affections of man; if they do not twine around God, they must twine around some meaner thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58907]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I am that way going to temptation, Where prayers cross.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I underestimated the A- League when I put my squad together. I put my hand up for that one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I underestimated the A- League when I put my squad together. I put my hand up for that one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is notone's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is notone's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet onhis ideas, to take a calculated risk-and to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound,  As emblems of the sovereign power,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54520]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound,  As emblems of the sovereign power,   Like other baubles in the Tower:    Is generous, valiant, just, and wise,     And so continues till he dies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's worth at least $2 million, but probably a great deal more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36922]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's worth at least $2 million, but probably a great deal more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43795]]></link><description><![CDATA[See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7943]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God, for His Majesty bears so tender an affection for us that I cannot doubt He will repay our love for others by augmenting, and in a thousand different ways, that which we bear for Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green,  O lily bursting white,   Dear lily of delight,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25087]]></link><description><![CDATA[O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green,  O lily bursting white,   Dear lily of delight,    Spring in my heart agen     That I may flower to men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still take them, and each and every MSHA citation, seriously. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38694]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still take them, and each and every MSHA citation, seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you start a conversation with the assumptionthat you are right or that you must win,obviously it is difficult to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9065]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you start a conversation with the assumptionthat you are right or that you must win,obviously it is difficult to talk.He is author of the Citizenship Papers and answeredquestions at a Washington DC book store.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ides of March are come. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26372]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ides of March are come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a man Of an unbounded stomach. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56053]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a man Of an unbounded stomach. -King Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21898]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to-day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66683]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30716]]></link><description><![CDATA[People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43166]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have suffered greatly, poor mother. Oh! do not lament, you have now the portion of the elect. It is in this way that mortals become angels. It is not their fault; they do not know how to set about it otherwise. This hell from which you have come out is the first step towards Heaven. We must begin by that. -- Jean Valjean --]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm in. It was prom, the whole thing is like a movie, so making it into a movie ... it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29970]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm in. It was prom, the whole thing is like a movie, so making it into a movie ... it was like the whole point of the night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many of them made the ultimate sacrifice for their country and we must never forget what they have given to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many of them made the ultimate sacrifice for their country and we must never forget what they have given to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44367]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/904]]></link><description><![CDATA[The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices -- against half the human race -- that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can deny that the New Testament has variety as well as unity. It is the variety which gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8043]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can deny that the New Testament has variety as well as unity. It is the variety which gives interest to the unity. What is it in which these people, differing as widely as they do, are vitally and fundamentally at one, so that through all their differences they form a brotherhood and are conscious of an indissolubale spiritual bond? There can be no doubt that that which unites them is a common relation to Christ -- a common faith in Him, involving religious convictions about Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimist: Day-dreamer more elegantly spelled]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46948]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you see someone like that who's in the spotlight and working hard and still not having a big head ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32090]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you see someone like that who's in the spotlight and working hard and still not having a big head and coming to work every day, it makes you want to play harder for the guy. People were getting crazy out there. There's nothing better than that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover;  Therefore are the lindens ever   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25118]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thou lookest on the lime-leaf, Thou a heart's form will discover;  Therefore are the lindens ever   Chosen seats of each fond lover.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed opinions, but generally act according to custom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23140]]></link><description><![CDATA[All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer,  Yet run himself life's mad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer,  Yet run himself life's mad career   Wild as the wave?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou should'st be carolling thy Maker's praise, Poor bird! now fetter'd, and here set to draw,  With graceless toil of beak and added claw,   The meagre food that scarce thy want allays!    And this--to gratify the gloating gaze     Of fools, who value Nature not a straw,      But know to prize the infraction of her law       An hard perversion of her creatures' ways!        Thee the wild woods await, in leaves attired,         Where notes of liquid utterance should engage          Thy bill, that now with pain scant forage earns.   - Julian C.H. Fane,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19556]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enthusiasm moves the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21901]]></link><description><![CDATA[Enthusiasm moves the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even at low speeds, trains with that much weight can take as much as a half-mile to stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even at low speeds, trains with that much weight can take as much as a half-mile to stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61049]]></link><description><![CDATA[By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind every great fortune there is a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind every great fortune there is a crime.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16572</guid></item></channel></rss>