<?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 would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je voudrais ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would love to see the grimace he [Marquis de Cinq-Mars] is now making on the scaffold. [Fr., Je voudrais bien voir la grimace qu'il fait a cette heure sur cet echafaud.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose,  But musical as is Apollo's lute, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46492]]></link><description><![CDATA[How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed, as full fools suppose,  But musical as is Apollo's lute,   And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets,    Where no crude surfeit reigns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we have a serious violation at four polling stations, that is not many voters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34836]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we have a serious violation at four polling stations, that is not many voters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  He is the true Gospel-bearer that carries it in his hands, in his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8295]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist  He is the true Gospel-bearer that carries it in his hands, in his mouth, and in his heart... A man does not carry it in his heart that does not love it with all his soul; and nobody loves it as he ought, that does not conform to it in his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a sure card. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5238]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a sure card.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55125]]></link><description><![CDATA[People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3161]]></link><description><![CDATA[For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudice is the reason of fools ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48094]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudice is the reason of fools]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And thus, what can we do, Poor rose and poet too,  Who both antedate our mission   In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54428]]></link><description><![CDATA[And thus, what can we do, Poor rose and poet too,  Who both antedate our mission   In an unprepared season?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/437]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want any money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41677]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want any money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66188]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do not love that do not show their love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25716]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do not love that do not show their love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25716</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[Pi. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pi.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot raise a man up by calling him down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21879]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37984]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The economic and technological triumphs of the past few years have not solved as many problems as we thought they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47674]]></link><description><![CDATA[The economic and technological triumphs of the past few years have not solved as many problems as we thought they would, and, in fact, have brought us new problems we did not foresee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster. -As You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Iranians were just jumping on the bandwagon. They want to galvanize people, keep them focused on an anti-Western agenda. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28952]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Iranians were just jumping on the bandwagon. They want to galvanize people, keep them focused on an anti-Western agenda.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18939]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spiritual power begins by directing animal power to other than egoistic ends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63211]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43221]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mother's love is patient and forgiving when all others are forsaking, it never fails or falters, even though the heart is breaking]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52140]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47374]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11240]]></link><description><![CDATA[All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Providence is always on the side of the last reserve ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Providence is always on the side of the last reserve]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the resurrection the substance of our bodies, however disintegrated, will be united. We must not fear that the omnipotence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8563]]></link><description><![CDATA[At the resurrection the substance of our bodies, however disintegrated, will be united. We must not fear that the omnipotence of God cannot recall all the particles that have been consumed by fire or by beast, or dissolved into dust and ashes, or decomposed into water, or evaporated into air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is laughing behind your back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is laughing behind your back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66170]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today: how can peoples of different appearance, mutually unintelligible languages, and dissimilar ways of life get along peaceably together?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1368]]></link><description><![CDATA[I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee begins to die, that quits his desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23574]]></link><description><![CDATA[[I used to believe] the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've concluded, is now an insufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold,A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.But the old man would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold,A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.But the old man would not so, but slew his son...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50267]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cannot conduct yourself with propriety, give place to those who can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11972]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's so much better to desire than to have. . . . The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen -- that's the most exalting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11972</guid></item></channel></rss>