<?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[She shows the worst qualities of masochists. She is boastful, she tramples upon the rights of others ... and because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31115]]></link><description><![CDATA[She shows the worst qualities of masochists. She is boastful, she tramples upon the rights of others ... and because the majority of Filipinos are women, she is abusing the rights of women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43531]]></link><description><![CDATA[True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60812]]></link><description><![CDATA[To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blame is safer than praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blame is safer than praise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what is I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. -King Henry V. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55964]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive. -King Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are one or two matters I wish to take up with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38437]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are one or two matters I wish to take up with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then saith he unto his disciples, The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few; Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he will send forth labourers into his harvest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62597]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never dare to write As funny as I can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never dare to write As funny as I can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the ship carrying living memories to the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19372]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the ship carrying living memories to the future.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect  The thoughts of others! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6170]]></link><description><![CDATA[O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealings teaches them suspect  The thoughts of others!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem of evil assumes the existence of a world-purpose. What, we are really asking, is the purpose of suffering? It seems purposeless. Our question of the why of evil assumes the view that the world has a purpose, and what we want to know is how suffering fits into and advances this purpose. The modern view is that suffering has no purpose because nothing that happens has any purpose: the world is run by causes, not by purposes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47499]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We just didn't hit well today. It's a big disappointment, but we still have a shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39447]]></link><description><![CDATA[We just didn't hit well today. It's a big disappointment, but we still have a shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42922]]></link><description><![CDATA[With people of only moderate ability modesty is mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258   Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258   Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? Perhaps you have stopped believing that God can work in a mighty way even in our generation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the husband once give way To his wife's capricious sway,  For his breeches he next day   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51772]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the husband once give way To his wife's capricious sway,  For his breeches he next day   May go to whoop and holloa.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a first step in what has to be a long series of steps to get to anything clinical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28549]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a first step in what has to be a long series of steps to get to anything clinical.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41626]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the twinkling of an eye. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55576]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the twinkling of an eye. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24991]]></link><description><![CDATA[A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recommend that the government articulates our very strong concerns that have been expressed about NMD in the UK. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33841]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recommend that the government articulates our very strong concerns that have been expressed about NMD in the UK.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35166]]></link><description><![CDATA[That man is a creature that needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Barnabas the Apostle Let songs of praises fill the sky!  Christ, our ascended Lord, Sends down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pentecost Feast of Barnabas the Apostle Let songs of praises fill the sky!  Christ, our ascended Lord, Sends down his Spirit from on high,  According to his word. The Spirit by his heavenly breath,  New life creates within: He quickens sinners from the death  Of trespasses and sin. The things of Christ the Spirit takes,  And shows them unto men; The fallen soul his temple makes,  God's image stamps again Come, Holy Spirit, from above,  With thy celestial fire: Come, and with flames of zeal and love  Our hearts and tongues inspire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1852]]></link><description><![CDATA[In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The little sister of the Poor . . . .  The Poor, and their concerns, she has   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61411]]></link><description><![CDATA[The little sister of the Poor . . . .  The Poor, and their concerns, she has   Monopolized, because of which    It falls to me to labor as     A Little Brother of the Rich.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds think alike. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds think alike.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that wherever I go, the resident idiot heads straight for me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2008]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58138]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55949]]></link><description><![CDATA[His nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. -King Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63124]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stoop, boys. This gate Instructs you how t' adore the heavens and bows you  To a morning's holy office. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stoop, boys. This gate Instructs you how t' adore the heavens and bows you  To a morning's holy office.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, infidel, I have you on the hip! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear Land to which Desire forever flees; Time doth no present to our grasp allow,  Say in the fixed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear Land to which Desire forever flees; Time doth no present to our grasp allow,  Say in the fixed Eternal shall we seize   At last the fleeting Now?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In doubtful matters boldness is everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51616]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doubtful matters boldness is everything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we'd played three pretty good games in a row. Everyone's going to have a bad game, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42651]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we'd played three pretty good games in a row. Everyone's going to have a bad game, and I thought we might have one after how well we played against Pilot Rock. But at least it was now and not next week.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many a good man I have seen go under. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many a good man I have seen go under.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64539]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Revolutions never occur in mathematics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Revolutions never occur in mathematics.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it that people rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the people involved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18739]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18739</guid></item></channel></rss>