<?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[This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he  Did that they did in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44585]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he  Did that they did in envy of great Caesar;   He, only in a general honest thought    And common good to all, made one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor. -King Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are probably extreme cases. More often, structures are calibrated so that assets pay down while a derivative amortizes. Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37702]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are probably extreme cases. More often, structures are calibrated so that assets pay down while a derivative amortizes. Most investors, who do not want their returns squeezed, would insist that the original transactions are modified to contain risks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do desire we may be better strangers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do desire we may be better strangers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pomps and vanity of this wicked world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy,  How well supplied with noble ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Question your grace the late ambassadors, With what great state he heard their embassy,  How well supplied with noble counsellors,   How modest in exception, and withal    How terrible in constant resolution,     And you shall find his vanities forespent      Were but the outside of the Roman Brutus,       Covering discretion with a coat of folly;        As gardeners do with ordure hide those roots         That shall first spring and be most delicate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too quick a sense of constant infelicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56496]]></link><description><![CDATA[An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20206]]></link><description><![CDATA[The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33231]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very easy to say everything is outrageous. But if you have an oil company that's setting up its own environmental department, for example, what do you do? Do you spit in its eye, or do you make sure that what they do actually has some substance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kingdom of God is within you.. and all beings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17700]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Kingdom of God is within you.. and all beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it hit the civic center floor, water gushed out like a geyser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40506]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it hit the civic center floor, water gushed out like a geyser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59547]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And rank for her meant duty, various, Yet equal in its worth, done worthily.  Command was service; humblest service ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13050]]></link><description><![CDATA[And rank for her meant duty, various, Yet equal in its worth, done worthily.  Command was service; humblest service done   By willing and discerning souls was glory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54024]]></link><description><![CDATA[If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there stalks Discord delighted with her torn mantle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51783]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there stalks Discord delighted with her torn mantle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any country that can produce that many scientists and engineers has a natural potential of being a significant software producer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any country that can produce that many scientists and engineers has a natural potential of being a significant software producer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I told the coaches there that I don't think I've ever been involved in all my years of coaching in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35993]]></link><description><![CDATA[I told the coaches there that I don't think I've ever been involved in all my years of coaching in a blowout that big in either boys or girls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17328]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17328</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[There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58251]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart is the only broken instrument that works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19008]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart is the only broken instrument that works.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the best. I just haven't played yet [on his golf game]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57720]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the best. I just haven't played yet [on his golf game].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride, Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side.  [Lat., Dat Galenus opes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rich Physician, honor'd Lawyers ride, Whilst the poor Scholar foots it by their side.  [Lat., Dat Galenus opes, dat Justinianus honores,   Sed genus species cogitur ire pedes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19890]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you read in newspapers is absolutely true, except for that rare story of which you happen to have first-hand knowledge]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6515]]></link><description><![CDATA[Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides whether the church is standing or falling. By this he meant that when this doctrine is understood, believed, and preached, as it was in New-Testament times, the church stands in the grace of God and is alive; but where it is neglected, overlaid, or denied, ... the church falls from grace and its life drains away, leaving it in a state of darkness and death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CONSIDERING THE VOID When I behold the charmof evening skies, their lulling endurance;the patterns of stars with namesof bears and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46793]]></link><description><![CDATA[CONSIDERING THE VOID When I behold the charmof evening skies, their lulling endurance;the patterns of stars with namesof bears and dogs, a swan, a virgin;other planets that the Voyager showed were like and so unlike our own,with all their diverse moons,bright discs, weird rings, and cratered faces;comets with their streaming tailsbent by pressure from our sun;the skyscape of our Milky Wayholding in its shimmering discan infinity of suns(or say a thousand billion);knowing there are holes of darknessgulping mass and even light,knowing that this galaxy of oursis one of multitudesin what we call the heavens,it troubles me. It troubles me.-President Jimmy Carter- (he has written a volume of poetry as well as a novel, The Hornet's Nest,about the Revolutionary War).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, the group must keep remembering that true growth in grace is not to be achieved by our own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, the group must keep remembering that true growth in grace is not to be achieved by our own efforts or contriving, but must be received as the gift of God's Spirit, working in and among us. The work of the group is to keep open the channels of receptiveness through study, discipline, prayer, and self-offering. When a group learns to live in this faith, it can keep the lines of endeavor tentative and sensitive to new headings and possibilities, on the one hand; and, on the other, move forward resolutely under such light as is now given.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no question average selling prices are dropping all over the marketplace, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35149]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no question average selling prices are dropping all over the marketplace,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34294]]></link><description><![CDATA[What people really want in the theater is fantasy involvement and not reality involvement.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20400]]></link><description><![CDATA[For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62303]]></link><description><![CDATA[Isocrates adviseth Demonicus, when he came to a strange city, to worship by all means the gods of the place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21233]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men  Walk under his huge ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men  Walk under his huge legs and peep about   To find ourselves dishonorable graves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47561]]></link><description><![CDATA[I ask you to join in a re-United States. We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts. We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together, or the American Dream will continue to wither. Our destiny is bound up with the destiny of every other American.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living is a disease from which sleep gives us relief eight hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With bated breath we offer wicked vows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50597]]></link><description><![CDATA[With bated breath we offer wicked vows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47345</guid></item></channel></rss>