<?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[What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13064]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the most important duty? One's duty toward one's parent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The delay) has come from chambers, but that is the only guidance I have. The conclusions of law will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38089]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The delay) has come from chambers, but that is the only guidance I have. The conclusions of law will not be issued today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26989]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made woman beautiful and foolish; beautiful, that man might love her; and foolish, that she might love him]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64367]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49357]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience makes a woman beautiful in middle age.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1853]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34767]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's improved my physical strength, and I'm getting a lot better. There's not as much frustration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29023]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63197]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, To have a thankless child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51336]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, To have a thankless child.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60103]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomats were invented simply to waste time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not like we're alone out there. There are really a lot of people doing this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33865]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not like we're alone out there. There are really a lot of people doing this.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1924]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49994]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This man - what's his name? - the number 10, the small one who doesn't play in the Real Madrid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31029]]></link><description><![CDATA[This man - what's his name? - the number 10, the small one who doesn't play in the Real Madrid first team - said that if Poland beat Azerbaijan 8-0, England should score at least eight and he'd score five of them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48579]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean,  When both ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58733]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes--that is, I mean,  When both the teacher and the taught are young,   As was the case, at least, where I have been;    They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong     They smile still more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish they would only take me as I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/288]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish they would only take me as I am.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a slap in the face to the County Commission and to all the people that you misinformed. ... Whoever decided ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30908]]></link><description><![CDATA[a slap in the face to the County Commission and to all the people that you misinformed. ... Whoever decided on that was absolutely out of line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53363]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yea, at that very moment Consideration like an angel came  And whipped th' offending Adam out of him,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yea, at that very moment Consideration like an angel came  And whipped th' offending Adam out of him,   Leaving his body as a paradise    T' envelop and contain celestial spirits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2411]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness--That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive to these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such Principles and and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our intention creates our reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our intention creates our reality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make the plough go before the horse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45263]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make the plough go before the horse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That falls under the confidentiality provisions of the program. His status is unchanged in that he continues to be under ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36023]]></link><description><![CDATA[That falls under the confidentiality provisions of the program. His status is unchanged in that he continues to be under suspension.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27150]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a man sows, that shall he and his relations reap.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was just sad. It's real unfortunate. Now I'm at the stage where I'm mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not posturing. This is a very clear indication that Geneva is becoming very doubtful. The bottom line is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36737]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not posturing. This is a very clear indication that Geneva is becoming very doubtful. The bottom line is that they are showing that they are strong and that they can take on the military.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we once accept the doctrine of the Incarnation, we must surely be very cautious in suggesting that any circumstance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8531]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we once accept the doctrine of the Incarnation, we must surely be very cautious in suggesting that any circumstance in the culture of first-century Palestine was a hampering or distorting influence upon His teaching. Do we suppose that the scene of God's earthly life was selected at random? -- that some other scene would have served better?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53058]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14775]]></link><description><![CDATA[An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25178]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16787]]></link><description><![CDATA[One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats' teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more bad musicians than there is bad music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43544]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3411]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Papua New Guinea, 1942  Whence comes this idea that if what we are doing is fun, it can't be God's will? The God who made giraffes, a baby's fingernails, a puppy's tail, a crooknecked squash, the bobwhite's call, and a young girl's giggle, has a sense of humor. Make no mistake about that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Union gives strength to the humble. [Lat., Auxilia humilia firma consensus facit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Union gives strength to the humble. [Lat., Auxilia humilia firma consensus facit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12953]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63355]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63355</guid></item></channel></rss>