<?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[Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17902]]></link><description><![CDATA[For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But for those on the right, ... McCarthy fought the good fight. He was courageous when others wouldn't do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35126]]></link><description><![CDATA[But for those on the right, ... McCarthy fought the good fight. He was courageous when others wouldn't do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54844]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53173]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7465]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawsuit, however just, can never be rightly prosecuted by any man, unless he treat his adversary with the same love and good will as if the business under controversy were already amicably settled and composed. Perhaps someone will interpose here that such moderation is so uniformly absent from any lawsuit that it would be a miracle if any such were found. Indeed, I admit that, as the customs of these times go, an example of an upright litigant is rare; but the thing itself, when not corrupted by the addition of anything evil, does not cease to be good and pure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35112]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12079]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23623]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true that a new threat against a member of the PP has appeared. We will reinforce all security measures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29321]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true that a new threat against a member of the PP has appeared. We will reinforce all security measures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended. - Epistle to a Young Friend, An.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59861]]></link><description><![CDATA[God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please; you can never have both.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I think the dangers of a member of the committee being blackmailed are somewhat exaggerated in political discourse, it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33663]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I think the dangers of a member of the committee being blackmailed are somewhat exaggerated in political discourse, it would still be a prudent discussion for the minority leader to have with Mr. Condit, ... It can very well be that one would want to err on the side of prudence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34281]]></link><description><![CDATA[High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41256]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it willbut grow and gather to itself such explosive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21570]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground it willbut grow and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it burststhrough it will blow up everything in its way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; but its harder to give up when you know its everything you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That ought to tell you something about him. In that game, he took it upon himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36047]]></link><description><![CDATA[That ought to tell you something about him. In that game, he took it upon himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19875]]></link><description><![CDATA[HOSPITALITY, n. The virtue which induces us to feed and lodge certain persons who are not in need of food and lodging.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the same phone service. So he can always call me for free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33539]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the same phone service. So he can always call me for free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity costs nothing, and it ain't worth nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46630</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[The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43546]]></link><description><![CDATA[The musician who always plays on the same string is laughed at]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was not made of common calf, Nor ever meant for country loon;  If with an axe I seem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56208]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was not made of common calf, Nor ever meant for country loon;  If with an axe I seem cut out,   The workman was no cobbling clown;    A good jack boot with double sole he made,     To roam the woods, or through the rivers wade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/677]]></link><description><![CDATA[In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24457]]></link><description><![CDATA[To work in the world lovingly means that we are defining what we will be for, rather than reacting to what we are against. -Christina Baldwin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the lone shielding on the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas--  But still the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25951]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the lone shielding on the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas--  But still the blood is strong, the heart is Highland,   And we in dreams behold the Hebrides.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44419]]></link><description><![CDATA[New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is never out of style. It was in fashion yesterday, it is the rage today and it will set the pace tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose firm is equal to the deed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16041]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose firm is equal to the deed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46672]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a number of companies in the area who do artificial foliage very well-- but I'd compare it to when you go to someone's house for dinner. If there is a flower arrangement that is fake, it makes me think differently of that person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57456]]></link><description><![CDATA[It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44873]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness a swaddlingband for it, And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,  And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17464]]></link><description><![CDATA[A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live so that you can at least get the benefit of the doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43987]]></link><description><![CDATA[O pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The West condemns any denial of the Jewish holocaust, but it permits the insult of Islamic sanctities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The West condemns any denial of the Jewish holocaust, but it permits the insult of Islamic sanctities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47425]]></link><description><![CDATA[No amount of study or learning will make a man a leader unless he has the natural qualities of one. - "London Times", February 17, 1941.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is the slavery of the free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better a near neighbour than a distant cousin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better a near neighbour than a distant cousin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55214]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I have attempted to join myself to others by services, it proved an intellectual trick,--no more. They eat your service like apples, and leave you out. But love them, and they feel you, and delight in you all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends I have made, whom Envy must commend, But not one foe whom I would wish a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boomer obviously threw a monkey wrench in everybody?s plans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boomer obviously threw a monkey wrench in everybody?s plans.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep;  Her march is o'er the mountain wave,   Her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Britannia needs no bulwarks No towers along the steep;  Her march is o'er the mountain wave,   Her home is on the deep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11543]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11543</guid></item></channel></rss>