<?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[I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5857]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is a sure anchor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is a sure anchor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little labour, much health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49048]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little labour, much health.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't beat about the bush. Blair was a negative factor on the doorstep, time and time and time again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38874]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't beat about the bush. Blair was a negative factor on the doorstep, time and time and time again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54032]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under any system, an element of discretions has to be exercised, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28454]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under any system, an element of discretions has to be exercised,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There were governments that were not willing to make the concessions necessary, there were spoilers also in the group, let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40211]]></link><description><![CDATA[There were governments that were not willing to make the concessions necessary, there were spoilers also in the group, let's be quite honest about that, ... I've tried to get them to understand that in our interconnected world, we need to look at issues in much broader terms rather than narrow national interests.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don't have. Life is a gift!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47412]]></link><description><![CDATA[No serious historian of politics would imagine that he had accounted for the protective tariff of the system of bounties or subsidies, for the monetary and banking laws, for the state of law in regard to corporate privileges and immunities, for the actual status of property rights, for agricultural or for labor policies, until he had gone behind the general claims and the abstract justifications and had identified the specifically interested groups which promoted the specific law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52664]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  He has loved us without being loved... We are bound to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6885]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380  He has loved us without being loved... We are bound to Him, and not He to us, because before He was loved, He loved us... There it is, then: we cannot... love Him with this first love. Yet I say that God demands of us, that as He has loved us without any second thoughts, so He should be loved by us. In what way can we do this, then? ... I tell you, through a means which he has established, by which we can love Him freely; ... that is, we can be useful, not to Him -- which is impossible -- but to our neighbor... To show the love that we have for Him, we ought to serve and love every rational creature and extend our charity to good and bad -- as much to one who does us ill service and criticizes us as to one who serves us. For, His charity extends over just men and sinners.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56165]]></link><description><![CDATA[She walks the waters like a thing of life, And seems to dare the elements to strife.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35493]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't gang up on the post players because they have so many good shooters on the perimeter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15524]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know every reporter there will be looking for that statement. Out of every 50 statements there that are neutral ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38621]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know every reporter there will be looking for that statement. Out of every 50 statements there that are neutral the only ones you'll hear are the ones that are controversial or inappropriate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62097]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day in the bluest of summer weather, Sketching under a whispering oak,  I heard five bobolinks laughing together, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4418]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day in the bluest of summer weather, Sketching under a whispering oak,  I heard five bobolinks laughing together,   Over some ornithological joke.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32315]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in luck. When I am diligent, my luck is generally good. When I am lax, my invariable turns bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In short, he and the Scotch have no way of redeeming the credit of their understandings, but by avowing that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54898]]></link><description><![CDATA[In short, he and the Scotch have no way of redeeming the credit of their understandings, but by avowing that they have been consummate villains. Stavano bene; per star meglio, stanno qui.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would place economic restrictions on the property owners themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31501]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would place economic restrictions on the property owners themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now we have a one-game winning streak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now we have a one-game winning streak.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43143]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweeter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50407]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stolen kisses are always sweeter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60097]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worship and birth to me are known By look, by bearing, and by tone,  Not by furred robe, or broidered zone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23428]]></link><description><![CDATA[But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Ms. Fitch will work through June 30, she will complete the fiscal year and her successor will be drawn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37193]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Ms. Fitch will work through June 30, she will complete the fiscal year and her successor will be drawn from the new pool now forming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45649]]></link><description><![CDATA[He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8042]]></link><description><![CDATA[What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke, that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that he reckons himself the sole master of his behavior, and that he does not intend to give an account of it to anyone but himself? Does he think that in that way he will have straightway persuaded us to have complete confidence in him, to look to him for consolation, for advice, and for help, in the vicissitudes of life? Do such men think that they have delighted us by telling us that they hold our souls to be nothing but a little wind and smoke -- and by saying it in conceited and complacent tones? Is that a thing to say blithely? Is it not rather a thing to say sadly -- as if it were the saddest thing in the world?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast  And fills the white and rustling sails, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43991]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast  And fills the white and rustling sails,   And bends the gallant mast!    And bends the gallant mast, my boys,     While, like the eagle free,      Away the good ship flies, and leaves       Old England in the lee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The funds are for] foreseeable needs in ongoing crises but there are also margins for unexpected catastrophes that may occur ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29040]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The funds are for] foreseeable needs in ongoing crises but there are also margins for unexpected catastrophes that may occur during the year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50763]]></link><description><![CDATA[That pleasure which can be safely indulged in is the least inviting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are more satirical from vanity than from malice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4092]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit.Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18958]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a heavy eater of beef. Methinks it doth harm to his wit.Wm Shakespeare in Twelfth Night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51449]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know it, and he's not robb'd at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess some of this was brought on myself, my stupidity. I don't know if it was naivety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34823]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess some of this was brought on myself, my stupidity. I don't know if it was naivety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64225]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62420]]></link><description><![CDATA[I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We lost because we told ourselves we lost ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25553]]></link><description><![CDATA[We lost because we told ourselves we lost]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25553</guid></item></channel></rss>