<?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[Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Would you kick an opponent when he was down? Yes, if I thought he might get up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said,  This is my own, my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said,  This is my own, my native land!   Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,    As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,     From wandering on a foreign strand!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our very freedom is secure because we're a nation governed by laws, not by men. We cannot as citizens pick ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our very freedom is secure because we're a nation governed by laws, not by men. We cannot as citizens pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast to youth and beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to youth and beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22966]]></link><description><![CDATA[INTIMACY, n. A relation into which fools are providentially drawn for their mutual destruction.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is a total physical, emotional sensation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9697]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who believes in nobody knows that he himself is not to be trusted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you choose hope, anything's possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62779]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you choose hope, anything's possible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54393]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere. [Lat., Si fueris Romae, Romano vivito more;  Si fueris alibi, vivito sicut ibi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. - Wisdom in Small Doses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's close to Chicago. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38872]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're attractive, quality-of-life places and have a somewhat more diverse economic base. It's close to Chicago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10973]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky,  And when down the midnight the owl call "to-whoo"!   Why, then the round moon is a daffodil too;    Now sheer to the bough-tops the sap starts to climb,     So, merry my masters, it's daffodil time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical and religious dry-rot of the modern world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical and religious dry-rot of the modern world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the mind is past hope, the heart is past shame.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide When, moment on moment, there rushes between  The one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two lives that once part, are as ships that divide When, moment on moment, there rushes between  The one and the other, a sea;--   Ah, never can fall from the days that have been    A gleam on the years that shall be!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art must take reality by surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art must take reality by surprise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65574]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today I see beauty everywhere I go, in every face I see, in every single soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me. . . . Me for it from the rathskellers up. Sixth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, little old Noisyville-on-the-Subway is good enough for me. . . . Me for it from the rathskellers up. Sixth Avenue is the West now to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's ok for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/646]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's ok for a man to commit adultery if his wife is ugly]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55281]]></link><description><![CDATA[The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55281</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to shop around for the best gas prices in town, you're still going to get that rebate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32289]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to shop around for the best gas prices in town, you're still going to get that rebate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the baby dies, On every side  Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud.   The baby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3637]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the baby dies, On every side  Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud.   The baby was not wrapped in any shroud.    The mother made no sound. Her head was bowed     That men's eyes might not see      Her misery.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203   The term "baptism in (or of) the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6352]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203   The term "baptism in (or of) the Spirit" conjures up the idea of a separate initiatory experience which every Christian ought to enjoy, whereas evangelicalism is noted for its stress upon a "conversion" experience which marks the beginning of the believer's relationship to his Lord. Too often, alas, conversion has been the end as well as the beginning, with the result that some Christians have looked back, with mingled delight and wistfulness to a past event that now seems to have diminished relevance to daily living. We can fully understand, then, the appeal of a movement which promises a new dimension of Christian living, there in the New Testament, and now available in everyday experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10236]]></link><description><![CDATA[There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His heroism, patriotism and service to the country are something we all need to see as a role model. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29145]]></link><description><![CDATA[His heroism, patriotism and service to the country are something we all need to see as a role model.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew,  It was a modest flower. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60705]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vi'let on the meadow grew, That no one saw, that no one knew,  It was a modest flower.   A shepherdess pass'd by that way--    Light footed, pretty and so gay;     That way she came,      Softly warbling forth her lay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Adam's fall-- We sinned all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56390]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Adam's fall-- We sinned all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was only early the next morning that I found out she had come to the service and left from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was only early the next morning that I found out she had come to the service and left from her reception to go to her father's deathbed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55285]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to work with the top people, because only they have the courage and the confidence and the risk-seeking profile that you need.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love received is the love that is saved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love received is the love that is saved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17895]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Frank is definitely not a keeping-the-seat-warm kind of figure. I've known Frank fairly well for six years. I wouldn't use ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Frank is definitely not a keeping-the-seat-warm kind of figure. I've known Frank fairly well for six years. I wouldn't use the term 'rising star,' but in the world of the Vatican he is very highly thought of ... he's someone who could be an archbishop someday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14510]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying to stuff reality into our concepts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our pompe the earth covers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49106]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our pompe the earth covers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1793]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not limited by our old ages; we are liberate by it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1793</guid></item></channel></rss>