<?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[Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing,  Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9923]]></link><description><![CDATA[But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing,  Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne,   The Cherub Contemplation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She didn't seem to get flustered or frustrated about the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42013]]></link><description><![CDATA[She didn't seem to get flustered or frustrated about the situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26028]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck -- who keeps right on going -- is the man who is there when the good luck comes -- and is ready to receive it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should (need) a man die who has sage in his garden? [Lat., Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should (need) a man die who has sage in his garden? [Lat., Cur moriatur homo, cui salvia crescit in horto?]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15725]]></link><description><![CDATA[What matters is not the allocation of portions out of a fund presented to man by nature. The problem is rather to further those social institutions which enable people to continue and to enlarge the production of all those things which they need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57605]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[broad-based, with nearly every consumer and commercial business line achieving double-digit profit growth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36614]]></link><description><![CDATA[broad-based, with nearly every consumer and commercial business line achieving double-digit profit growth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Short boughs, long vintage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Short boughs, long vintage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forceÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âwe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41121]]></link><description><![CDATA[People like me who believe the left can be a moderate forceÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âwe have failed. We are stuck in the medieval notion that there is an aristocracy and a people, and the people want a piece of what the aristocracy hadÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âa life subsidized enough to have a minimum of work and a maximum of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now o'er his tomb and happy ashes will not violets spring?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are high-risk, high-reward [vaccines]. The chances of their success are remote, but if they do work, we would expect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35447]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are high-risk, high-reward [vaccines]. The chances of their success are remote, but if they do work, we would expect them to be blockbusters if they produced enough to supply developed nations and undeveloped nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3969]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steve eats, sleeps, breathes the facts of the case. I was just glad to see him back in the courtroom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steve eats, sleeps, breathes the facts of the case. I was just glad to see him back in the courtroom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46069]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast;  And the woods against a stormy sky,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2409]]></link><description><![CDATA[The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock-bound coast;  And the woods against a stormy sky,   Their giant branches toss'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35856]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was an unwarranted and vicious attack.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5843]]></link><description><![CDATA[That load becomes light which is cheerfully borne. [Lat., Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47063]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every disadvantage has got it's advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every disadvantage has got it's advantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now-always.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28483]]></link><description><![CDATA[A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26324]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservation is ethically sound. It is rooted in our love of the land, our respect for the rights of others, our devotion to the rule of law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To disregard money, on suitable occasions, is often a great profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51750]]></link><description><![CDATA[To disregard money, on suitable occasions, is often a great profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that stand high have many blasts to shake them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51511]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People will think they just dropped cash on us. I don't think so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36032]]></link><description><![CDATA[People will think they just dropped cash on us. I don't think so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule needs significant work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule needs significant work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52674]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week, sometimes, to make it up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish that our news organizations would give a lot more attention and time and space to stories from around ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish that our news organizations would give a lot more attention and time and space to stories from around the world, because it couldn't be more important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favorite things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favorite things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be clear, the proposal before the General Assembly is the fruit of compromise. It cannot be a perfect ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be clear, the proposal before the General Assembly is the fruit of compromise. It cannot be a perfect solution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   We must remember that our experience of union with God, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8337]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968   We must remember that our experience of union with God, our feeling of His presence, is altogether accidental and secondary. It is only a side effect of His actual presence in our souls, and gives no sure indication of that presence in any case. For God Himself is above all apprehensions and ideas and sensations, however spiritual, that can ever be experienced by the spirit of man in this life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek joy in what you give not in what you get ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek joy in what you give not in what you get]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19315]]></link><description><![CDATA[What want these outlaws conquerors should have But History's purchased page to call them great?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still think it's probably recognized as one of the most socially progressive courts in the country. It has instincts ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35080]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still think it's probably recognized as one of the most socially progressive courts in the country. It has instincts to protect the poor and the powerless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is met and destroyed with courage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is met and destroyed with courage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58580]]></link><description><![CDATA[A career is born in public -- talent in privacy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57362]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is merely an illusion, although a very persistent one]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can make a trade every day if I want to, but that's not going to help us. A trade ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32635]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can make a trade every day if I want to, but that's not going to help us. A trade that would get us better rarely comes along. They're very difficult to find. Good trades are very difficult in our league and don't happen very often.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25235]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always tell people that I became a writer not because I went to school but because my mother took me to the library. I wanted to become a writer so I could see my name in the card catalog.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof  From sharp ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9965]]></link><description><![CDATA[But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof  From sharp contentions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9965</guid></item></channel></rss>