<?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[It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4065]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was simply amazed; in my 20-plus years as a funeral home director, I have never seen workers come out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40410]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was simply amazed; in my 20-plus years as a funeral home director, I have never seen workers come out in force in a display of respect as I had here today. There were state highway department workers at every intersection on the way to the cemetery and about 40 to 50 state trucks on hand. The Illinois Department of Transportation takes care of its own. It was very impressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teenage girls are too caught up in being with a guy who's the best for everyone else and not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teenage girls are too caught up in being with a guy who's the best for everyone else and not the best for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240  As a man increases in moral strength of character, so his conscience becomes more sensitive; he realizes more keenly the distance that separates him from the ideal, and hence the weight of the feeling of guiltiness oppresses him ever more heavily. Growth in goodness does not, therefore, necessarily imply increased happiness, on the contrary, it may mean greater unhappiness. And his unhappiness increasing in proportion to the elevation of his ethical standards, a man's end is either Buddha or suicide if he knows no God; while if he knows God, it is despair or that conversion which, having sobbed away its tears on the Father's breast, thence derives ever new strength to fight the battle of life, sure of the final victory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44092]]></link><description><![CDATA[All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him, and then broke the mould.  [Fr., Non e ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26245]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him, and then broke the mould.  [Fr., Non e un si bello in tante altre persone,   Natura il fece, e poi roppa la stampa.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2970]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green.  Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing   With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1786]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It still amazes me how many millions goes to discovering another star in the galaxies when, for all we know, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14760]]></link><description><![CDATA[It still amazes me how many millions goes to discovering another star in the galaxies when, for all we know, we are still sitting on top of another undiscovered world beneath out feet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11194]]></link><description><![CDATA[They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You to the left and I to the right, For the ways of men must sever--  And it may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59393]]></link><description><![CDATA[You to the left and I to the right, For the ways of men must sever--  And it may be for a day and a night,   And it well may be forever.    But whether we meet or whether we part,     (For our ways are past our knowing)      A pledge from the heart to its fellow heart,       On the ways we all are going!        Here's luck!         For we know not where we are going.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64151]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our country is the common parent of all. [Lat., Patria est communis omnium parens.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Daily with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Daily with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1331]]></link><description><![CDATA[No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquated...to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what is I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2105]]></link><description><![CDATA[I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gift, to be true, must be the flowing of the giver unto me, correspondent to my flowing unto him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57553]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. [Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16578]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. [Lat., Vitam regit fortuna, non sapientia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45833]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We had a fast start, then Milford had a 12-0 run, then we held them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32030]]></link><description><![CDATA[We had a fast start, then Milford had a 12-0 run, then we held them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25843]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has death his fopperies? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16427]]></link><description><![CDATA[Has death his fopperies?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest. - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spot, my job is to hit them and find them in the right spot. It's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guys were in the right spot, my job is to hit them and find them in the right spot. It's easy to play with guys when they put the ball in the basket.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-2 Watch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55438]]></link><description><![CDATA[-2 Watch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Liberals have many tails, and chase them all ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24660]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Liberals have many tails, and chase them all]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28895]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2906]]></link><description><![CDATA[But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public safety personnel will investigate door alarms and will respond to the building as needed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public safety personnel will investigate door alarms and will respond to the building as needed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death my lord, Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't  That sure th' have worn out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death my lord, Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't  That sure th' have worn out Christendom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29994]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a kid sailing Optimists down in Cornwall and there was a British America's Cup challenge that was training in Falmouth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is best to know the worst at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is best to know the worst at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose service is perfect freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose service is perfect freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18000]]></link><description><![CDATA[A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59023]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, how full of briers is this working-day world! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55631]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, how full of briers is this working-day world! -As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the race I was a little disappointed because that was the second time I lost to that kid. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41780]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the race I was a little disappointed because that was the second time I lost to that kid. I thought maybe if it was on a different track I could have beaten that kid, but that's part of racing, the type of track you're on and stuff like that. I always want to win, but that's kind of a reality. It was a good showing to be there and finish second.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think they should leave the schools in the community. They can really bond with teachers and each other here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33356]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think they should leave the schools in the community. They can really bond with teachers and each other here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11118]]></link><description><![CDATA[I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reunion after long separation is even better than one's wedding night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reunion after long separation is even better than one's wedding night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62832</guid></item></channel></rss>