<?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[No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26161]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf and the LambWOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf and the LambWOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, saying, "Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my imputations." The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cure for anger is delay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21226]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cure for anger is delay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap. [Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54043]]></link><description><![CDATA[As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap. [Sp., Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2449]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens can not cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going as if he trod upon eggs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Going as if he trod upon eggs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In true love, there is no mountain too high to climb. No river too wide to cross. And most of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65768]]></link><description><![CDATA[In true love, there is no mountain too high to climb. No river too wide to cross. And most of all in true love there is no ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52051]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They talk like angels but they live like men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50414]]></link><description><![CDATA[They talk like angels but they live like men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's when Mike asked if I'd throw. I've been under the weather, but then I thought I'd better help him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33507]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's when Mike asked if I'd throw. I've been under the weather, but then I thought I'd better help him out. He knows he has to prove himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19793]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is great; but silence is greater. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is great; but silence is greater.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs. [Lat., Suus quoque attributus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs. [Lat., Suus quoque attributus est error:  Sed non videmus, manticae quid in tergo est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54279]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man has a right to do what he pleases, except when he pleases to do right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you must flie, flie well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49523]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you must flie, flie well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253   Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this, or that; He knows best what is good for us. If your boy should ask you [for] a suit of clothes, and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he: let him ask a suit of clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15018]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Act honestly, and answer boldly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4469]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act honestly, and answer boldly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing you can do when you've made a mistake is exactly what she's done: Admit it, admit it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing you can do when you've made a mistake is exactly what she's done: Admit it, admit it soon and put yourself at the mercy of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this is going do extremely well. They'll pack the place, I don't think there is any doubt about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41966]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this is going do extremely well. They'll pack the place, I don't think there is any doubt about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6907]]></link><description><![CDATA[We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love. For love does not measure by a merchant's scales, not with a surveyor's chain. It hath a delicacy... unknown in any handling of material substance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Looking out of a hospital window is different from looking out of any other. Somehow you do not see outside.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4269]]></link><description><![CDATA[About the only thing we have left that actually discriminates in favor of the plain people is the stork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46553]]></link><description><![CDATA[When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital "T".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were; I have not seenAs others saw; I could not bringMy passions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26902]]></link><description><![CDATA[From childhood's hour I have not beenAs others were; I have not seenAs others saw; I could not bringMy passions from a common spring.From the same source I have not takenMy sorrow; I could not awakenMy heart to joy at the same tone;And all I loved, I loved alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he's had his family with him during this time. I think that has really helped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30340]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he's had his family with him during this time. I think that has really helped.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you become senile, you won't know it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1866]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you become senile, you won't know it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To change and to change for the better are two different things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22139]]></link><description><![CDATA[To change and to change for the better are two different things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has very small and delicate ears. It's not all flour corn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39432]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has very small and delicate ears. It's not all flour corn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[develop internal resources and transform them into internal investments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29696]]></link><description><![CDATA[develop internal resources and transform them into internal investments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13171]]></link><description><![CDATA[(For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is wont to hide herself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is wont to hide herself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our land is the dearer of our sacrifices. The blood of our martyrs sanctifies and enriches it. Their spirit passes into thousands of hearts. How costly is the progress of the race. It is only by the giving of life that we can have life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59046]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are in the black theater of nonexistence. In an eye blink the curtain is up, the stage ablaze, for the vast drama of ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we do not understand we do not possess. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47782]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we do not understand we do not possess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47782</guid></item></channel></rss>