<?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[This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65109]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17367]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glutton: one who digs his grave with his teeth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's interesting that astronomy can do this. And it's great that there's this ongoing interest in Ansel. We're planning to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42178]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's interesting that astronomy can do this. And it's great that there's this ongoing interest in Ansel. We're planning to go out and see it for curiosity's sake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult. [Ger., Kein Heiligthum heisst uns den Schimpf ertragen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22843]]></link><description><![CDATA[No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult. [Ger., Kein Heiligthum heisst uns den Schimpf ertragen.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolves and the SheepWhy should there always be this fear and slaughter between us? said the Wolves to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolves and the SheepWhy should there always be this fear and slaughter between us? said the Wolves to the Sheep. Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to answer for. They always bark whenever we approach you and attack us before we have done any harm. If you would only dismiss them from your heels, there might soon be treaties of peace and reconciliation between us. The Sheep, poor silly creatures, were easily beguiled and dismissed the Dogs, whereupon the Wolves destroyed the unguarded flock at their own pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52212]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Constitution should be short and obscure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9906]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Constitution should be short and obscure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river,  Motionless the sleeping shadows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river,  Motionless the sleeping shadows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26721]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord,  As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies   That keep her from her rest.    (Macbeth:) Cure her of that!     Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,      Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow,       Raze out the written troubles of the brain,        And with some sweet oblivious antidote         Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff          Which weighs upon the heart?           (Doctor:) Therein the patient            Must minister to himself.             (Macbeth:) Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We received a grant through the Discovery Project to visit the Portland Art Museum, the Oregon Historical Society, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30505]]></link><description><![CDATA[We received a grant through the Discovery Project to visit the Portland Art Museum, the Oregon Historical Society, and the Oregon Zoo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and notyour god. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and notyour god.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentiallyconstructed by the time childhood is over, but as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21906]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one sees the personality not as an apparatus that is essentiallyconstructed by the time childhood is over, but as always in its essencedeveloping, then life at 25 or 30 or at the gateway to middle age willstimulate its own intrigue, surprise, and exhilaration of discovery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60819]]></link><description><![CDATA[That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Meek Walton's heavenly memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Meek Walton's heavenly memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31398]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are you tired of sand being kicked in your face? I promise you new muscles in days!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24363]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lost a cousin about three years ago. I felt helpless and wished there was something I could have done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32110]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lost a cousin about three years ago. I felt helpless and wished there was something I could have done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't care who you are, you're going to choke in certain matches. You get to a point where your legs don't move and you can't take a deep breath. You start to hit the ball about a yard wide, instead of inches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31869]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was in the school, too, and had failed the exam,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing safe in religion, except in such a course of behaviour that leaves nothing for corrupt nature to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7008]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing safe in religion, except in such a course of behaviour that leaves nothing for corrupt nature to feed or live upon; which can only then be done when every degree of perfection we aim at is a degree of death to the passions of the natural man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43030]]></link><description><![CDATA[The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55179]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is infested by persons who, seeing that the sentiments please, counterfeit the expression of them. These we call sentimentalists--talkers who mistake the description for the thing, saying for having.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3233]]></link><description><![CDATA[I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Friday Good Friday in my heart! Fear and affright! My thoughts are the disciples when they fled, My words ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6625]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good Friday Good Friday in my heart! Fear and affright! My thoughts are the disciples when they fled, My words the words that priest and soldier said, My deed the spear to desecrate the dead. And day, Thy death therein, is changed to night. Then Easter in my heart sends up the sun. My thoughts are Mary, when she turned to see, My words are Peter, answering, 'Lov'st thou me?' My deeds are all Thine own drawn close to Thee. And night and day, since thou dost rise, are one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were trying to give it its own identity. Before it was tucked away and hard to find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35640]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were trying to give it its own identity. Before it was tucked away and hard to find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4672]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good bankers, like good tea, can only be appreciated when they are in hot water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62218]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65295]]></link><description><![CDATA[What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perhaps the most valuable result of al education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Polar Express , ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31619]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Polar Express ,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is always jealous ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is always jealous]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can speculate what's going to happen, but upsets happen in sports all the time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42349]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can speculate what's going to happen, but upsets happen in sports all the time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24511]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34992]]></link><description><![CDATA[My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who work for plant rights don't parse parsleynor bomb poppiesnor purchase antipeople papers.They plant papayas,and peppers.Their pulpit is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who work for plant rights don't parse parsleynor bomb poppiesnor purchase antipeople papers.They plant papayas,and peppers.Their pulpit is the popular*not the papal but poplars.* not in the sense of ephemeral famebut what the people want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nose, nose, holly red nose, And who gave thee that jolly red nose?  Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nose, nose, holly red nose, And who gave thee that jolly red nose?  Nutmegs and ginger, cinammon and cloves;   And they gave me this jolly red nose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best being plainly told. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51517]]></link><description><![CDATA[An honest tale speeds best being plainly told.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As is the mother, so is her daughter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48567]]></link><description><![CDATA[As is the mother, so is her daughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who could tell such a story with dry eyes? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who could tell such a story with dry eyes?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We played Niles defense. We pride ourselves on that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37876]]></link><description><![CDATA[We played Niles defense. We pride ourselves on that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55234]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you. -Jeff Warner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60948]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no better exercise for your heart, Than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60948</guid></item></channel></rss>