<?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[FOUR FLOWERSThe Sun Arosein Morning Glorywith His GoldenrodWanding Violetto Rose(to C and R Davisof Maryland). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4896]]></link><description><![CDATA[FOUR FLOWERSThe Sun Arosein Morning Glorywith His GoldenrodWanding Violetto Rose(to C and R Davisof Maryland).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  Let a man but separate himself from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865  Let a man but separate himself from all contingencies and from all works, and there will come over him in this state of emptiness a peace which is very great, lovely, and agreeable, and which is in itself no sin since it is part of our human nature. But when it is taken for a veritable possessing of God, or unity with God, then it is sin, for it is in reality nothing else than a state of thorough passivity and apathy untouched by the power from on high -- a purely negative state from which (if one in arrogance calls it divine) nothing follows but blindness, failure of understanding, and a disinclination to be governed by the rules of ordinary righteousness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone;  I wish to have none other books   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61918]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone;  I wish to have none other books   To read or look upon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide, There was no cause for weeping, save when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54443]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide, There was no cause for weeping, save when the good man died.  [Fr., Ce n'est que lorsqu'il expira   Que le peuple, qui l'enterra pleura.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51379]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action conquers fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action conquers fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27755]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good words are worth much, and cost little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good words are worth much, and cost little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19141]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16017]]></link><description><![CDATA[They lepe lyke a flounder out of a fryenge panne into the fyre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can you make a mistake and miss your fate? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path.  But he that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19950]]></link><description><![CDATA[An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path.  But he that has humanity, forewarned,   Will turn aside and let the reptile live.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All argument will vanish before one touch of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43803]]></link><description><![CDATA[All argument will vanish before one touch of nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We bought a real beauty parlor, with dryers and functioning water, and the whole bit. All the other elements, artistically, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35478]]></link><description><![CDATA[We bought a real beauty parlor, with dryers and functioning water, and the whole bit. All the other elements, artistically, bring things into a whole.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People need loving the most when they deserve it the least ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46042]]></link><description><![CDATA[People need loving the most when they deserve it the least]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2347]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speak of the gods as they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speak of the gods as they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The certainties of one age are the problems of the next. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19413]]></link><description><![CDATA[The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3258]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannottell. From no where we came, into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15228]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little while and I will be gone from among you, when I cannottell. From no where we came, into nowhere we go. What is life? Itis a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo inthe winter time. It is the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14410]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13472]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49251]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray, Mr. Abernethy, what is a cure for gout?' was the question of an indolent and luxurious citizen. 'Live upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray, Mr. Abernethy, what is a cure for gout?' was the question of an indolent and luxurious citizen. 'Live upon sixpence a day - and earn it,' was the cogent reply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth ... Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4454]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every woman has the right to be beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every woman has the right to be beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46882]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in his mind, but can extract what is in his stomach.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9393]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has always seemed to me extreme presumptuousness on the part of those who want to make human ability the measure of what nature can and knows how to do, since, when one comes down to it, there is not one effect in nature, no matter how small, that even the most speculative minds can fully understand. -Galileo Galilei.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whilst no timetable is set for a re-launch of the World Racing Championships in a new format, the members will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whilst no timetable is set for a re-launch of the World Racing Championships in a new format, the members will continue their full commitment and co-operation to showcase international competition at its highest levels in racing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The outlines of an Asian employment crisis are already taking shape. Strong economic growth alone will not solve the [region's] ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36690]]></link><description><![CDATA[The outlines of an Asian employment crisis are already taking shape. Strong economic growth alone will not solve the [region's] problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51527]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the glory of expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the glory of expression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're beginning to come out of a recession. It's now a matter of just how meaningfully the economy can recover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28654]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're beginning to come out of a recession. It's now a matter of just how meaningfully the economy can recover over the next quarter or two,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poemThe Cotter’s Saturday Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. from the poemThe Cotter’s Saturday Night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been collecting portrait miniatures for some time. Although we had a few handfuls of examples before 1980, we began ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39329]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been collecting portrait miniatures for some time. Although we had a few handfuls of examples before 1980, we began collecting in a more serious fashion about then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/801]]></link><description><![CDATA[If advice will not improve him, neither will the rod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm personally not against billboards, but I am worried about the looks within the city limits. I see billboards as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42328]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm personally not against billboards, but I am worried about the looks within the city limits. I see billboards as more of a process of, as you're coming into town, wanting people to stop and service our businesses, buy their gas and stuff like that. Once you come into town and get into high density growth and mini-stores it becomes more of a distraction and a nuisance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66178]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got to really hear people's stories. People could share things with me in ways they didn't normally get to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40382]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got to really hear people's stories. People could share things with me in ways they didn't normally get to because people just didn't have time to sit with them for hours on end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13313]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29528]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29528</guid></item></channel></rss>