<?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 taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The taint inherent in absolute power is not its inhumanity but its antihumanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10746]]></link><description><![CDATA[They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64391]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14763]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher quality of life not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may define therapy as a search for value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59122]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may define therapy as a search for value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't born to be a fighter. The causes I have fought for have invariably been causes that should have been gained by a delicate suggestion. Since they never were, I made myself into a fighter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun is new each day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun is new each day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16740]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street Till--think of that who find life so sweet!--  She hates the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poor Peggy hawks nosegays from street to street Till--think of that who find life so sweet!--  She hates the smell of roses!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14109]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was probably not as sharp as he normally is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32143]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was probably not as sharp as he normally is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41580]]></link><description><![CDATA[She wants to see the goals in the bill become a reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith. - Every Man In His Humor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Shepherd and the WolfA shepherd once found the whelp of a Wolf and brought it up, and after a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1582]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Shepherd and the WolfA shepherd once found the whelp of a Wolf and brought it up, and after a while taught it to steal lambs from the neighboring flocks. The Wolf, having shown himself an apt pupil, said to the Shepherd, Since you have taught me to steal, you must keep a sharp lookout, or you will lose some of your own flock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is more blessed to give than to receive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5743]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is more blessed to give than to receive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2021]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is lighter than the wind? A feather. What is lighter than a feather? Fire.  What lighter than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61915]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is lighter than the wind? A feather. What is lighter than a feather? Fire.  What lighter than a fire? A woman.   What lighter than a woman? Nothing.    [Lat., Vente quid levius? fulgur. Quid fulgure? flamma     Flamma quid? mulier. Quid mulier? nihil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Investor confidence about profits at exporters is getting much stronger for the coming fiscal year. The dollar's advance is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Investor confidence about profits at exporters is getting much stronger for the coming fiscal year. The dollar's advance is a major support for the bullish outlook.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27143]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my case, adulthood itself was not an advance, although it was a useful waymark.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability.It is the ability to recognize ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22617]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability.It is the ability to recognize ability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Herdsman and the Lost Bull A herdsman tending his flock in a forest lost a Bull-calf from the fold. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1523]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Herdsman and the Lost Bull A herdsman tending his flock in a forest lost a Bull-calf from the fold. After a long and fruitless search, he made a vow that, if he could only discover the thief who had stolen the Calf, he would offer a lamb in sacrifice to Hermes, Pan, and the Guardian Deities of the forest. Not long afterwards, as he ascended a small hillock, he saw at its foot a Lion feeding on the Calf. Terrified at the sight, he lifted his eyes and his hands to heaven, and said: Just now I vowed to offer a lamb to the Guardian Deities of the forest if I could only find out who had robbed me; but now that I have discovered the thief, I would willingly add a full-grown Bull to the Calf I have lost, if I may only secure my own escape from him in safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good heart cannot lye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49028]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good heart cannot lye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57392]]></link><description><![CDATA[It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50503]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only gain from the friendship of the great is a fine dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're just keeping things simple. Philly's a great team, and I thought we did a good job of getting behind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32044]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're just keeping things simple. Philly's a great team, and I thought we did a good job of getting behind their 'D' and making things happen and coming through the neutral zone with speed. After the first period I think we were a little slow, but we got going as the game went on. We blocked shots and killed penalties, and to win games you have to do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65512]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25917]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am unaware of love, I live drably. If I become intoxicated with love, I live in dreamland. If I recognize love, and shake his hand then comfort, dreams, and sometimes intoxication become mine to drench in and give away as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18133]]></link><description><![CDATA[No iron can pierce the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This aircraft signifies many rescues. Many men were saved because this aircraft was able to get to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36791]]></link><description><![CDATA[This aircraft signifies many rescues. Many men were saved because this aircraft was able to get to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil  Of dropping buckets into empty wells, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil  Of dropping buckets into empty wells,   And growing old in drawing nothing up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46553]]></link><description><![CDATA[When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue,  Displays distinguished merit, is a noble   Of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valor, liberty and virtue,  Displays distinguished merit, is a noble   Of Nature's own creating.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58837]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time has convinced me of one thing: Television is for appearing on--not for looking at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44314]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bill . . . called a guy who was a towering figure and he totally defanged him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bill . . . called a guy who was a towering figure and he totally defanged him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43669]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can never be too slow when you try to deal with public safety, because as we've seen in other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29473]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can never be too slow when you try to deal with public safety, because as we've seen in other historic periods where we've cut dramatically the size of the police force, there's been a concomitant increase ... in crime, ... You can't compromise public safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, For wise men say it is the wisest course. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, For wise men say it is the wisest course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/703</guid></item></channel></rss>