<?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[Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3536</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[Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . . he had two distinct persons in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hannibal, as he had mighty virtues, so head he many vices; . . . he had two distinct persons in him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63499]]></link><description><![CDATA[A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just staying one day ahead of yesterday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51003]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just staying one day ahead of yesterday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12711]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are doing your best only when you are trying to improve what you are doing]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a test of ultimate willThe heartbreak climb uphillGot to pick up the paceIf you want to stay in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18729]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a test of ultimate willThe heartbreak climb uphillGot to pick up the paceIf you want to stay in the raceMore than just blind ambitionMore than just simple greedMore than just a finish lineMust feed this burning need]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8482]]></link><description><![CDATA[To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we actually came out harder, but our shots just weren't dropping as they could have. Even though they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30491]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we actually came out harder, but our shots just weren't dropping as they could have. Even though they took that lead, we were in control the entire game.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime  With tears and laughter for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55309]]></link><description><![CDATA[There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime  With tears and laughter for all time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like a Bull Moose.   - Theodore Roosevelt, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57946]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like a Bull Moose.   - Theodore Roosevelt,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse. -Diana Cooper. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Age is an ugly thing, and it goes on getting worse. -Diana Cooper.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7644]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among our own people also the church sorely needs clergy in close touch with the ordinary life of the laity, living the life of ordinary men, sharing their difficulties and understanding their trials by close personal experience. Stipendiary clergy cut off by training and life from that common experience are constantly struggling to get close to the laity by wearing lay clothing, sharing in lay amusements, and organizing lay clubs; but they never quite succeed. To get close to men, it is necessary really to share their experience, and to share their experience is to share it by being in it, not merely to come as near to it as possible without being in it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned  Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20912]]></link><description><![CDATA['Twas he Gave heat unto the injury, which returned  Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom   Of himn gave fire to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won’t expect it back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47044]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46593]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60977]]></link><description><![CDATA[When he first ran for office, he appealed to the voters: "I never stole anything in my life. All I ask is a chance.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum,  And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on,   While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glowing Ruby should adorn Those who in warm July are born,  Then will they be exempt and free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23249]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glowing Ruby should adorn Those who in warm July are born,  Then will they be exempt and free   From love's doubt and anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47471]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given one well-trained physician of the highest type he will do better work for a thousand people than ten specialists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44897]]></link><description><![CDATA[And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26698]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sound mind in a sound body is a thing to be prayed for. [Lat., Orandum est, ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In war, there are no unwounded soldiers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61180]]></link><description><![CDATA[In war, there are no unwounded soldiers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25305]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the waves are round me breaking,As I pace the deck alone,And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest upon;What would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwell?Absence makes the heart grow fonder,Isle of Beauty, fare thee well! - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. [Lat., Ignavissimus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. [Lat., Ignavissimus quisque, et ut res docuit, in periculo non ausurus, nimis verbis et lingua feroces.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57958]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oppression can only survive through silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oppression can only survive through silence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thief believes everybody steals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46974]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thief believes everybody steals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love her energy, and her business sense was impressive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37798]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love her energy, and her business sense was impressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1355]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20559]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cry out upon the stars for doing Ill offices, to cross their wooing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd be proud to say it in a chat room, to the Wall Street Journal , on the cover of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31392]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd be proud to say it in a chat room, to the Wall Street Journal , on the cover of your magazine, that hey, these are abusive users, and we have to do something about it. This isn't a charity. We have to run a business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This does not produce the kind of people who can speak their mind about issues. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29109]]></link><description><![CDATA[This does not produce the kind of people who can speak their mind about issues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mithriades, by frequently drinking poison, rendered it impossible for any poison to hurt him. You, Cinna, by always dining on next to nothing, have taken due precaution against ever perishing from hunger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6464]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems to me, as time goes on, that the only thing that is worth seeking for is to know and to be known by Christ -- a privilege open alone to the childlike, who, with receptivity, guilelessness, and humility, move Godward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are teenagers ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58819]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do they rate a movie "R" for "adult language?" The only people I hear using that language are teenagers]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When in doubt, don't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/878]]></link><description><![CDATA[When in doubt, don't.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All styles are good except the tiresome kind. [Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58103]]></link><description><![CDATA[All styles are good except the tiresome kind. [Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing baffles the schemes of evil people so much as the calm composure of great souls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1127]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is choice possible to us at any moment, as long as we live. But there is no sacrifice. There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist. Beware of those who talk about sacrifice. - The Life of Poetry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1127</guid></item></channel></rss>