<?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[Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true way to be humble is not to stoop till thou art smaller than thyself, but to stand at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8104]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true way to be humble is not to stoop till thou art smaller than thyself, but to stand at thy real height against some higher nature that will show thee what the real smallness of thy greatness is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25520]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wife is essential to great longevity; she is the receptacle of half a man's cares, and two-thirds of his ill-humor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't read lips unless they're touching mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23853]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't read lips unless they're touching mine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self-assessment and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15271]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15271</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[I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8844]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never would believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready ;saddled and bridled to be ridden.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Way down upon de Swanee Ribber, Far, far away,  Dere's whar ma heart am turning ebber,   Dere's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Way down upon de Swanee Ribber, Far, far away,  Dere's whar ma heart am turning ebber,   Dere's whar de old folks stay.    All up and down de whole creation,     Sadly I roam,      Still longing for de old plantation,       And for de old folks at home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's always a highlight of the year for our kids. It's a fun time. The weather should be good Monday ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32151]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's always a highlight of the year for our kids. It's a fun time. The weather should be good Monday through Thursday so the playing conditions should be good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been told that we probably will not be able to get home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40061]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been told that we probably will not be able to get home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men still seek Him today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men still seek Him today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26440]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great poet has seldom sung of lawfully wedded happiness, but of free and secret love; and in this respect, too the time is coming when there will no longer be one standard of morality for poetry and another for life. To anyone tender of conscience, the ties formed by a free connection are stronger than the legal ones.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, Curtain round the vault of heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16544]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63627]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the crème de la crème. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing certain except the unforeseen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14524]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing certain except the unforeseen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51499]]></link><description><![CDATA[All places that the eye of heaven visits, Are to a wise man ports and happy havens.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But now being lifted into high society, And having pick'd up several odds and ends  Of free thoughts in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56760]]></link><description><![CDATA[But now being lifted into high society, And having pick'd up several odds and ends  Of free thoughts in his travels for variety,   He deem'd, being in a lone isle, among friends,    That without any danger of a riot, he     Might for long lying make himself amends;      And singing as he sung in his warm youth,       Agree to a short armistice with truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are dancing on a volcano. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27779]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are dancing on a volcano.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27779</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50459]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but the weak and little mind that rejoices in revenge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50459</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[I wonder why prostitution is illegal ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48506]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder why prostitution is illegal]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While man's desires and aspirations stir, He can not choose but err.  [Ger., Es irrt der Mensch so lang ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14158]]></link><description><![CDATA[While man's desires and aspirations stir, He can not choose but err.  [Ger., Es irrt der Mensch so lang er strebt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55594]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This huge middle class has a lot of disposable income. It's also hungry for Western-branded goods. Wal-Mart early on found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34651]]></link><description><![CDATA[This huge middle class has a lot of disposable income. It's also hungry for Western-branded goods. Wal-Mart early on found this fact to be very profitable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Focus on remedies, not faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Focus on remedies, not faults.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are more readers of the English Bible in this country than in any other, and the time seemed to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6476]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are more readers of the English Bible in this country than in any other, and the time seemed to me to have come for a frank and direct translation of the Greek New Testament into our modern spoken American English. We take great pains to provide Asiatica and Africana with special versions, so that they may read the Bible each in his own tongue wherein he was born; and why not do as much for our young people, and our fellow citizens generally?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19934]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until the philosophy which holds one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war and until there are no longer first-class and second-class citizens of any nation, until the color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes. And until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race, there is war. And until that day, the dream of lasting peace, world citizenship, rule of international morality, will remain but a fleeting illusion to be pursued, but never attained... now everywhere is war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58214]]></link><description><![CDATA[In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5945]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not the punishment but the cause makes the martyr.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25326]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor prevents a "hardening of the attitudes." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor prevents a "hardening of the attitudes."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26547]]></link><description><![CDATA[House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41862]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't imagine being a paramedic going to the scene of a wreck. That's what that was, pretty much, a wreck.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd say we put a good run in the first half and a good run in the second half. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd say we put a good run in the first half and a good run in the second half. We didn't really play 40 minutes of basketball. The key (to playing a transition game) was the defensive intensity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[China will probably be the most important car market in the world within 5 to 10 years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35190]]></link><description><![CDATA[China will probably be the most important car market in the world within 5 to 10 years.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God doesn't believe in the easy way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36992]]></link><description><![CDATA[God doesn't believe in the easy way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43185]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5232]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the 10th of July 1553, about two hours after noon, a loud discharge of ordnance burst from the turrets ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4630]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the 10th of July 1553, about two hours after noon, a loud discharge of ordnance burst from the turrets of Durham House, then the residence of the Duke of Northumberland, grandmaster of the realm, and occupying the site of the modern range of buildings known as the Adelphi; and at the signal, which was immediately answered from every point along the river where a bombard or culverin could be planted-- . . .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence will punish to prevent crime, not to avenge it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20920</guid></item></channel></rss>