<?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 only source of knowledge is experience ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only source of knowledge is experience]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf in Sheep's ClothingOnce upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf in Sheep's ClothingOnce upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily. Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his costume. In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly secure. But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly. Harm seek. Harm find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59768]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you blame others, you give up your power to change. -Dr. Robert Anthony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5571]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you blame others, you give up your power to change. -Dr. Robert Anthony.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can change anything you want. You just can't change everything youwant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21444]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can change anything you want. You just can't change everything youwant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real character of a man is found out by his amusements. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2464]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. [Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi  Nulla potest placare quies.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. [Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi  Nulla potest placare quies.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A very valiant trencher-man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55413]]></link><description><![CDATA[A very valiant trencher-man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who would be first to breast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4157]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we could know which of us, darling, would be the first to go, who would be first to breast the swelling tide and step alone upon the other side -- if we could know!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21684]]></link><description><![CDATA[When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25112]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62306]]></link><description><![CDATA[And what greater calamity can fall upon a nation than the loss of worship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12355]]></link><description><![CDATA[A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65836]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no way to peace; peace is the way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27863]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no way to peace; peace is the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26495]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring  In the spring,   And wait upon her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring  In the spring,   And wait upon her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stained With grief, that's beauty's canter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far from our eyes th' Enchanting Objects set, Advantage by the friendly Distance get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far from our eyes th' Enchanting Objects set, Advantage by the friendly Distance get.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mordre wol out, that see we day by day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mordre wol out, that see we day by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series about the early church:   As to the Emperor and the charge of high treason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series about the early church:   As to the Emperor and the charge of high treason against us, Caesar's safety lies not in hands soldered on. We invoke the true God for the Emperor. Even if he persecute us, we are bidden to pray for them that persecute us, as you can read in our books, which are not hidden, which you often get hold of. We pray for him because the Empire lies between us and the end of the world. We count the Caesars to be God's vice-regents and swear by their safety (not by their genius, as required). As for loyalty, Caesar really is more ours than yours; for it was our God who set him up. It is for his own good, that we refuse to call the Emperor God; Father of his Country is a better title. No Christian has ever made a plot against a Caesar; the famous conspirators and assassins were heathen, one and all. Piety, religion, faith are our best offering of loyalty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're trying to make this a little bit of a hotter network, a little bit of a younger network. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35280]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're trying to make this a little bit of a hotter network, a little bit of a younger network.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's still out enjoying his life and my brother is gone. We would like to see a little bit of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29200]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's still out enjoying his life and my brother is gone. We would like to see a little bit of justice, that's all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tongue talkes at the heads cost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tongue talkes at the heads cost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother wouldn't let me just throw it back to him. He taught me how to long snap, and he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34737]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother wouldn't let me just throw it back to him. He taught me how to long snap, and he told me I had to snap the ball back to him every time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38588]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the song of the wind as it came, Tossing the flags of the Nations to flame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16148]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the song of the wind as it came, Tossing the flags of the Nations to flame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54271]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hold these truths to be self-evident,--that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64503]]></link><description><![CDATA[When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I worship the quicksand he walks in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62301]]></link><description><![CDATA[I worship the quicksand he walks in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31487]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50651]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want free life, and I want fresh air; And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want free life, and I want fresh air; And I sigh for the canter after the cattle,  The crack of the whip like shots in battle,   The medley of horns, and hoofs, and heads    That wars, and wrangles, and scatters and spreads;     The green beneath and the blue above,      And dash, and danger, and life and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47176]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the duty of righteous men to make war on all undeserved privilege, but one must not forget that this is a war without end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15789]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion is the thickness of a prison wall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21605]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43338]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why yes -- a bulletproof vest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45204]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45204</guid></item></channel></rss>