<?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[A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2799]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60011]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23953]]></link><description><![CDATA[On their side the workers had only the Constitution. The other side had bayonets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet how much less it were to gain, Though thou hast left me free,  The loveliest things that still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet how much less it were to gain, Though thou hast left me free,  The loveliest things that still remain,   Than thus remember thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words writ in waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words writ in waters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1327]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27291]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know any other way to lead but by example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know any other way to lead but by example.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39153]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never seen him there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33137]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never seen him there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16609]]></link><description><![CDATA[If America can go to the moon, then in the decades to come we should not ever have to have young Americans sent to any part of the world to defend and die for America's gluttony on fossil fuel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest sin is sitting on your ass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20694]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stop the I. When that's all you have to say, it is very tedious and self-promoting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stop the I. When that's all you have to say, it is very tedious and self-promoting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11611]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2882]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The folly of one man is the fortune of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The folly of one man is the fortune of another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was probably one of the most memorable things. I'd say they're the best crowd for that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36550]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was probably one of the most memorable things. I'd say they're the best crowd for that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13630]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important part of the whole educational concept, and if you don't have extracurricular things to do, some kids just don't make it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66408]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels    We would fain be humble; but not despised. To be despised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Michael & All Angels    We would fain be humble; but not despised. To be despised and rejected is the heritage of virtue. We would be poor, too; but without privation. And doubtless we are patient; except with hardships and with disagreeables. And so with all the virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46390]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. - Adages.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For some reason, I looked at her and realized how much I loved her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28422]]></link><description><![CDATA[For some reason, I looked at her and realized how much I loved her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, Concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The one sure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[GodWhen I was alone, and had nothingI asked for a friend to help me bear the painNo one came, except ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52962]]></link><description><![CDATA[GodWhen I was alone, and had nothingI asked for a friend to help me bear the painNo one came, except GodWhen I needed a breath to rise, from my sleepNo one could help me.. except GodWhen all I saw was sadness, and I needed answersNo one heard me, except GodSo when I'm asked.. who I give my unconditional love to?I look for no other name, except God]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out. -Twelfth Night. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55741]]></link><description><![CDATA[Halloo your name to the reverberate hills, And make the babbling gossip of the air Cry out. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never make a defence or apology before you be accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13167]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take it that every Christian delivers himself up wholly to God in his baptism, when he renounces all the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8372]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take it that every Christian delivers himself up wholly to God in his baptism, when he renounces all the pomps and vanities of Satan, and enlists himself as a soldier to fight under Christ's banner all his life after. And Saint Paul, speaking of those that die with Christ, that they may live no longer to themselves, but to Him that died for them, does not mean this of monks only, but of Christians universally.  ... The Colloquies of Erasmus July 13, 1999  Do right, and God's recompense to you will be the power of doing more right. Give, and God's reward to you will be the spirit of giving more: a blessed spirit, for it is the Spirit of God Himself, whose Life is the blessedness of giving. Love, and God will pay you with the capacity of more love; for love is Heaven: love is God within you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16805]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A church debt is the devil's salary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A church debt is the devil's salary.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4556]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you play your rival, you have to know that they're going to come with everything they've got. Records mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32108]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you play your rival, you have to know that they're going to come with everything they've got. Records mean nothing. It doesn't matter who's playing well, who's not playing well. It's who comes out and wants to win it. Northridge came out and wanted to win it. We just happened to want it more in the fourth quarter and we did things right in the fourth quarter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasure is often the introduction to pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasure is often the introduction to pain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At length her grace rose and with modest paces Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like  Cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54509]]></link><description><![CDATA[At length her grace rose and with modest paces Came to the altar, where she kneeled, and saint-like  Cast her fair eyes to heaven and prayed devoutly;   Then rose again and bowed her to the people;    When by the Archbishop of Canterbury     She had all the royal makings of a queen,      As holy oil, Edward Confessor's crown,       The rod, and bird of peace, and all such emblems        Laid nobly on her; which performed, the choir         With all the choicest music of the kingdom          Together sung 'Te Deum.' So she parted           And with the same full state packed back again            To York Place, where the feast is held.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,  Atoms or systems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,  Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,   And now a bubble burst, and now a world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/885]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out and out, to man or woman, money, food, clothing, or anything else, if they are able-bodied and can work and earn what they need, when there is anything on earth for them to do. This is my principle and I try to act upon it. To pursue a contrary course would ruin any community in the world and make them idlers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a long lesson in humility. -James M. Barrie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17588]]></link><description><![CDATA[They whose sole bliss is eating can give but that one brutish reason why they live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26418</guid></item></channel></rss>