<?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[Hee that would bee well old, must bee old betimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that would bee well old, must bee old betimes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start to see cracks in everything. I'm convinced that tragedy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess when your heart gets broken you sort of start to see cracks in everything. I'm convinced that tragedy wants to harden us and our mission is never to let it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is the dress of thoughts.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is the dress of thoughts.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not anything so excellent, but some will carp at it. . . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42068]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not anything so excellent, but some will carp at it. . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it men or women who work themost in slaughterhouses?Is it men or women who aremost involved in domestic battering?Is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it men or women who work themost in slaughterhouses?Is it men or women who aremost involved in domestic battering?Is it men or women who committhe most rapes?Is it men or women whovote for the most executions?Is it men or women who promotewar, vote for war, kill in war?Is it men or women who as'talk show hosts' allow no talk?Is it men or women whoare more often pedophiles?Is it men or women who torturelab animals more?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65954]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Assuredly there is but one way in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces  That which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3518]]></link><description><![CDATA[But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces  That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8915]]></link><description><![CDATA[If woolly fleeces spread the heavenly way No rain, be sure, disturbs the summer's day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46400]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward -- or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58108]]></link><description><![CDATA[To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without publicity there can be no public support, and without public support every nation must decay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52489]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  'Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary, Martha & Lazarus, Companions of Our Lord  'Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the mediocre are always at their best! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the mediocre are always at their best!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1958]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade, and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8811]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4073]]></link><description><![CDATA[These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The forehead is the gate of the mind. [Lat., Frons est animi janua.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27512]]></link><description><![CDATA[The forehead is the gate of the mind. [Lat., Frons est animi janua.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/790]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To him that will, waies are not wanting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50008]]></link><description><![CDATA[To him that will, waies are not wanting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness,--an open and noble temper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64389]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love working out. It's my release. I've done it since I've been in the military.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/402]]></link><description><![CDATA[A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that the most liberal professions of good-will are very far from being the surest marks of it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28168]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50345]]></link><description><![CDATA[The higher the tower, the greater the fall thereof.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63463]]></link><description><![CDATA[A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13940]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To Woodrow Wilson, the apparent failure, belongs the undying honor, which will grow with the growing centuries, of having saved ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62236]]></link><description><![CDATA[To Woodrow Wilson, the apparent failure, belongs the undying honor, which will grow with the growing centuries, of having saved the "little child that shall lead them yet." No other statesman but Wilson could have done it. And he did it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64049]]></link><description><![CDATA[The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're beefing up our rehab services for the coming years, including cardiac rehab. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32885]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're beefing up our rehab services for the coming years, including cardiac rehab.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4243]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20759]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is forever poised between a cliché and an indiscretion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17614]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things -- to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west,  Where the sun, his day's work ended, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44525]]></link><description><![CDATA[A late lark twitters from the quiet skies: And from the west,  Where the sun, his day's work ended,   Lingers as in content,    There falls on the old, gray city     An influence luminous and serene,      A shining peace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ay me! what perils do environ The man that meddles with cold iron!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65693]]></link><description><![CDATA[And then he gives me a smile that just seems so genuinely sweet with just the right touch of shyness that unexpected warmth rushes through me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27591]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62347]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intelligent enemy is worth more than a stupid friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4869]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4869</guid></item></channel></rss>