<?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[To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16810]]></link><description><![CDATA[To act the part of a true friend requires more conscientious feeling than to fill with credit and complacency any other station or capacity in social life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In poison there is no physic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51304]]></link><description><![CDATA[In poison there is no physic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. Atother times a parallel Dream appears. The one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21468]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. Atother times a parallel Dream appears. The one that scares the hell out ofyou is probably it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15706]]></link><description><![CDATA[An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  The truth is that every man is in Christ; the condemnation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Frederick Denison Maurice, Priest, teacher, 1872  The truth is that every man is in Christ; the condemnation of every man is that he will not own the truth, he will not act as if it were true, that except he were joined with Christ, he could not think, breathe, live a single hour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man that is warned is half armed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50961]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man that is warned is half armed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19517]]></link><description><![CDATA[The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There but for the grace of God go I ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18077]]></link><description><![CDATA[There but for the grace of God go I]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.   - Sir Humphrey Davy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54814]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.   - Sir Humphrey Davy,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52523]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I publish this poem for you, speaking as a trader, I shall be a considerable loser. Did I publish all I admire, out of sympathy with the author, I should be a ruined man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a language spoken by everyone but understood only by heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a language spoken by everyone but understood only by heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth,  Is the tender fear of wrong,   That never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth,  Is the tender fear of wrong,   That never wrongeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloomy calm of idle vacancy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58220]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are always reinventing music. We were an oddity when we formed, just a singer and a keyboard player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41405]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are always reinventing music. We were an oddity when we formed, just a singer and a keyboard player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've directed traditional operas and it's been wonderful. But despite all the work they require, operettas are just plain fun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31581]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've directed traditional operas and it's been wonderful. But despite all the work they require, operettas are just plain fun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything in art is but a copy of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything in art is but a copy of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the end that crowns us, not the fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13782]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Lion and the MouseA LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lion and the MouseA LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse piteously entreated, saying: If you would only spare my life, I would be sure to repay your kindness. The Lion laughed and let him go. It happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters, who bound him by st ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his roar, came gnawed the rope with his teeth, and set him free, exclaim You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; I now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to con benefits on a Lion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3988]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48331]]></link><description><![CDATA[An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47449]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends. They're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even [Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani] does not want a quote-unquote Islamic State, ... He wants a state that respects the place ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even [Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani] does not want a quote-unquote Islamic State, ... He wants a state that respects the place of Islam in public life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55845]]></link><description><![CDATA[And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti for an inward bruise; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[already seething with social injustice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31999]]></link><description><![CDATA[already seething with social injustice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52525]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper mill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35933]]></link><description><![CDATA[I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29561]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is singularly unequipped to beat these people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37557]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is singularly unequipped to beat these people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen is the tongue of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen is the tongue of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57693]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;  Custards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though we eat little flesh and drink no wine, Yet let's be merry; we'll have tea and toast;  Custards for supper, and an endless host   Of syllabubs and jellies and mince-pies,    And other such ladylike luxuries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A blustering night, a faire day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49003]]></link><description><![CDATA[A blustering night, a faire day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19641]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty four hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64371]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is always something left to love. And if you ain't learned that, you ain't learned nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider  Of dusty and old titles, that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61131]]></link><description><![CDATA[O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider  Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood   The earth when it is sick, and curest the world    O' the pleurisy of people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow;  But by-and-by will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruel and cold is the judgment of man, Cruel as winter, and cold as the snow;  But by-and-by will the deed and the plan   Be judged by the motive that lieth below.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe this payola scandal may represent the most widespread and flagrant violation of any FCC rules in the history ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38980]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe this payola scandal may represent the most widespread and flagrant violation of any FCC rules in the history of American broadcasting, ... Mr. Spitzer's office has collected a mountain of evidence on the potentially illegal promotion practices of not only Sony BMG, but also other major record companies, independent promoters and several of the largest radio station groups.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are declining to discuss the details of the bargaining. We're doing our bargaining at the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are declining to discuss the details of the bargaining. We're doing our bargaining at the table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57109]]></link><description><![CDATA[The suddenness of the leap from hardware to software cannot but produce a period of anarchy and collapse, especially in the developed countries.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conviction of having committed a fault is its first and greatest punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conviction of having committed a fault is its first and greatest punishment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51189</guid></item></channel></rss>