<?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[All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66767]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last and highest result of prayer is not the securing of this or that gift, the avoiding of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last and highest result of prayer is not the securing of this or that gift, the avoiding of this or that danger. The last and highest result of prayer is the knowledge of God -- the knowledge which is eternal life -- and by that knowledge, the transformation of human character, and of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33652]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quite frankly, [the bid process] is as intense as any pursuit of a telecom contract I've ever been through representing BellSouth,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20422]]></link><description><![CDATA[But let a man know that there are things to be known, of which he is ignorant, and it is so much carved out of his domain of universal knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more reason, the less government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more reason, the less government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28117]]></link><description><![CDATA[We learn from history that we do not learn anything from history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53180]]></link><description><![CDATA[In water one sees one's own face; But in wine one beholds the heart of another]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave Love mercy, and delight to save. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave Love mercy, and delight to save.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're providing all the supplies and dinner. Parents just bring in pictures they want to put in the scrapbook, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29146]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're providing all the supplies and dinner. Parents just bring in pictures they want to put in the scrapbook, and the essay the kids wrote will be the centerpiece. It will pull a little at the heartstrings because the essay and pictures are so meaningful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49017]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12253]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have found it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43557]]></link><description><![CDATA[One (practitioner of science) is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the "terror of the Lord" that causes us to "persuade" others, but it is the love of Christ ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7243]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the "terror of the Lord" that causes us to "persuade" others, but it is the love of Christ that constraineth us to live to Him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No love to a Fathers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49653]]></link><description><![CDATA[No love to a Fathers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The landfill can serve as school of bad habits to teach bears to associate people with food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42170]]></link><description><![CDATA[The landfill can serve as school of bad habits to teach bears to associate people with food.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59667]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2346]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personally, I've always thought dying on vacation was the better way to go . . . I do have certain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personally, I've always thought dying on vacation was the better way to go . . . I do have certain requests about my passing, though. I hope that if I die in a plane crash, it's coming FROM a vacation instead of heading TO. I know, it's a small consolation, but I'd have a tan and would look rested at my calling hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis--once that crisis can be recognized and understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/189]]></link><description><![CDATA[He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes creativity just means the daily work of helping others to see a problem in a different way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58069]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice is the crowning glory of the virtues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27578]]></link><description><![CDATA[As long as people believe in absurdities they will continue to commit atrocities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The modesty's a candle to thy merit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42905]]></link><description><![CDATA[The modesty's a candle to thy merit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. -Mark Twain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51611]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who quarrels with a drunken man injures one who is absent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigues of supporting it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been subject to politics as long as I've been alive, thirty-five years, starting with the New Deal, going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been subject to politics as long as I've been alive, thirty-five years, starting with the New Deal, going into the Second World War, the Cold War, Korea, the whole thing. So, I've been affected by it and hence since I've made my art, my art must reflect my political experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is by nature a political animal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is by nature a political animal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I rise long before day and work till nightfall, when I take a walk and go to bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38836]]></link><description><![CDATA[I rise long before day and work till nightfall, when I take a walk and go to bed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50385]]></link><description><![CDATA[What prevents a man's speaking good sense with a smile on his face?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47439]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives. Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort which it brings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is a thing to be acheived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the cock is silent. [Fr., C'est chose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61917]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a thing very displeasing to me when the hen speaks and the cock is silent. [Fr., C'est chose qui moult me deplaist,  Quand poule parle et coq se taist.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the old armchair quarterback theory. Everybody thinks they can be a better coach, a better general manager, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36063]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the old armchair quarterback theory. Everybody thinks they can be a better coach, a better general manager, a better owner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was never at the level Buchanan was at. The issue was more that the potential was there, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39771]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was never at the level Buchanan was at. The issue was more that the potential was there, and the water intrusion was there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm elated, just relieved it's all over, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm elated, just relieved it's all over,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45519]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -Martin Mull.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While I breath, I hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19814]]></link><description><![CDATA[While I breath, I hope.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19814</guid></item></channel></rss>