<?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[Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money. [Lat., Pretio parata vincitur pretio fides.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57369]]></link><description><![CDATA[They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Danger) didn't even come to my mind at the time. I was just thinking of getting the police officers out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31825]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Danger) didn't even come to my mind at the time. I was just thinking of getting the police officers out of the car.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest form of wisdom is kindness ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61729]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest form of wisdom is kindness]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43321]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Will Rogers] was America's most complete human document. One-third humor. One-third humanitarian. One-third heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong. [Or, What doesn't kill youmakes you stronger.]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21074]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong. [Or, What doesn't kill youmakes you stronger.].]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46695]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality. [Lat., Ludendi etiam est quidam modus retinendus, ut ne nimis omnia profundamus, elatique voluptate in aliquam turpitudinem delabamur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3105]]></link><description><![CDATA["If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, "the law is an ass, a idiot."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick (Though he gave his name to our Old Nick). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nick Machiavel had ne'er a trick (Though he gave his name to our Old Nick).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reason to repeat bad history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53120]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reason to repeat bad history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition has no rest! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition has no rest!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been involved with college baseball for 30 years, and this is something that's always come up, but nobody's ever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38781]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been involved with college baseball for 30 years, and this is something that's always come up, but nobody's ever acted on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was x years old in the year x^2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26509]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was x years old in the year x^2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above!  Beneath the sliding sun thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creator Venus, genial power of love, The bliss of men below, and gods above!  Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race,   Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place;    For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear,     Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year;      Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly,       Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  If the Holy Spirit can take over the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be. Life is supplied with a basic adequacy... The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions. Many Christians are Christians in their actions -- they don't lie, steal, commit adultery, or get drunk; but they react badly to what happens to them: they react in anger, bad temper, self-pity, jealousy, and envy... When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Will the theater disappear? No. Is it healthy? Also no.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12676]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I see levels below 17,500 as very attractive for bargain-hunting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36555]]></link><description><![CDATA[I see levels below 17,500 as very attractive for bargain-hunting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro, In all the raging impotence of woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43470]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, 'No.']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience does not ever err; it is only your judgment that errs in promising itself results which are not caused by your experiments]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19487]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you be expected to govern a country that has 246 kinds of cheese?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19887]]></link><description><![CDATA[A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen! O, listen! Here come the hum the golden bees  Underneath full blossomed trees,   At once with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen! O, listen! Here come the hum the golden bees  Underneath full blossomed trees,   At once with glowing fruit and flowers crowned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David's had an incredible year on clay and is in spectacular form at the moment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39055]]></link><description><![CDATA[David's had an incredible year on clay and is in spectacular form at the moment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think, in general, most people go to the pump and they see what the price is. They don't really understand how much the weather really effects our energy consumption and our energy supply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The heart] is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12598]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The heart] is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue is the worst part of a bad servant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give thy thoughts no tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give thy thoughts no tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5007]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54689]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17499]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be disquieted in time of adversity. Be firm with dignity and self-reliant with vigor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heednever take advantage of the things you neednever let yourself be overcome by greedwalk the straight and narrow and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heednever take advantage of the things you neednever let yourself be overcome by greedwalk the straight and narrow and you shall succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first three weeks were bitterly cold, but the last week was pretty darn warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37833]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first three weeks were bitterly cold, but the last week was pretty darn warm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?  Sweet Helen, make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?  Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.--   Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies!--]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who remove stones, bruise their fingers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53501]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64991]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1694]]></link><description><![CDATA[But there are certain very practical things American Negro writers can do. And must do. There's a song that says, "the time ain't long." That song is right. Something has got to change in America—and change soon. We must help that change to come.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1694</guid></item></channel></rss>