<?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[Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59841]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is cruel, but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hope I never get so old I get religious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53599]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope I never get so old I get religious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bliss itself is not worth having, If we're by compulsion blest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bliss itself is not worth having, If we're by compulsion blest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This shows that criminals are attempting to stay ahead of the game by trying to evade detection at British ports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37840]]></link><description><![CDATA[This shows that criminals are attempting to stay ahead of the game by trying to evade detection at British ports.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From our point of view, it's not just recognizing customers that might have a problem with gambling, it's also understanding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29266]]></link><description><![CDATA[From our point of view, it's not just recognizing customers that might have a problem with gambling, it's also understanding ways to solve the problem as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20199]]></link><description><![CDATA[My idea of walking into the jaws of death is marrying some woman who has lost three husbands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through the fall and winter, he has shown a lot of improvement. I think he has shown that he can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through the fall and winter, he has shown a lot of improvement. I think he has shown that he can take control of that position if he would choose to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11965]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One extends one's limits only by exceeding them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22693]]></link><description><![CDATA[One extends one's limits only by exceeding them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Property is a central economic institution of any society, and private property is the central institution of a free society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance have been conflated by the popular culture. Fame and significance have nothing to do with one another; and complexity and profundity have nothing to do with one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last year, I was sort of a kid and I was a little scared, I ain't scared any more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless you have some goals, I don't think there's any way to get above the pack. My vision was always well beyond what I had any reason to expect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50686]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may break, you may shatter the vase, as you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never seen a reaction like that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never seen a reaction like that,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52133]]></link><description><![CDATA[The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was tough on the way back this morning. I was so mad; it kept snowing and snowing. We should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39677]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was tough on the way back this morning. I was so mad; it kept snowing and snowing. We should have been here half an hour ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10119]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb: And the Prophet said, 'And lo, the beast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43331]]></link><description><![CDATA[The film begins with the title card from an Old Arabian Proverb: And the Prophet said, 'And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty. And it stayed its hand from killing. And from that day, it was as one dead.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputations on the line in support of an idea or enterprise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensibly and accessibly than in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7026]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Christian religion finds expression thus, in the love of those who love Christ, more comprehensibly and accessibly than in metaphysical or ethical statements. It is an experience rather than a conclusion, a way of life rather than an ideology; [it is] grasped through the imagination rather than understood through the mind, belonging to the realm of spiritual rather than intellectual perception; reaching quite beyond the dimension of words and ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13626]]></link><description><![CDATA[Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27160]]></link><description><![CDATA[I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are going to have a functioning and healthy democratic society, we need to be open to civil discourse. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35840]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are going to have a functioning and healthy democratic society, we need to be open to civil discourse. In other words, we have to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us work without theorizing, 'Tis the only way to make life endurable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,  That thou mayst shake the superflux to them  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel,  That thou mayst shake the superflux to them   And show the heavens more just.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48386]]></link><description><![CDATA[the attempt to make the consumption of beer criminal is as silly and as futile as if you passed a law to send a man to jail for eating cucumber salad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The facts of life are very stubborn things ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32014]]></link><description><![CDATA[The facts of life are very stubborn things]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52501]]></link><description><![CDATA[All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's a man, since the time he fled in 1981, has never had a job, ... He has a rich ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's a man, since the time he fled in 1981, has never had a job, ... He has a rich wife ... he has a magnificent house. He has the method, the means and the money to make his escape.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    If I now want to add something of my own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    If I now want to add something of my own (i.e., inner assurances) to this faith, if this great and glorious faith is defective and saves me not till I can add my own sense and my own feeling to it at such a time or place, is not this saying in the plainest manner that faith alone cannot justify me? ... All I would say of these inward delights and enjoyments is this: they are not holiness, they are not piety, they are not perfection, but they are God's gracious allurements and calls to seek after holiness and spiritual perfection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18028]]></link><description><![CDATA[All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The genius of the Methodist movement, which enabled it to conquer the raw lives of workingmen in industrial England, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The genius of the Methodist movement, which enabled it to conquer the raw lives of workingmen in industrial England, and the raw lives of men and women on the American frontier, was the "class meeting" -- ten members and their leader, meeting regularly for mutual encouragement, rebuke, nurture, and prayer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7153]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other.  ... The Confessions of St. Augustine    April 4, 1998  The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity; but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least of all deserve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's metal more attractive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's metal more attractive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I'm hoping it will be easier. I have the reason to do it, though. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33895]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I'm hoping it will be easier. I have the reason to do it, though.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46814]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46814</guid></item></channel></rss>