<?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[One may smile, and smile, and be a villain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51255]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may smile, and smile, and be a villain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is great love there are always miracles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is great love there are always miracles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day;  The merry breezes approach them,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2945]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Blossoms and leaves in plenty From the apple tree fall each day;  The merry breezes approach them,   And with them merrily play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22849]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'll try to recoup whatever it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38937]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'll try to recoup whatever it costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Misery is almost always the result of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Misery is almost always the result of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He always wants to come with me. He insists, and he cries if I can't take him. He's afraid that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41275]]></link><description><![CDATA[He always wants to come with me. He insists, and he cries if I can't take him. He's afraid that if I go, I won't ever come back.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Infidelity in woman is a masculine trait ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Infidelity in woman is a masculine trait]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49687]]></link><description><![CDATA[One father is enough to governe one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheerfulness in most cheerful people, is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can you predict anything? I wouldn't have predicted this. It certainly tests your mettle, ... I'm very pleased with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33479]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can you predict anything? I wouldn't have predicted this. It certainly tests your mettle, ... I'm very pleased with the manner in which everybody has responded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great minds have purposes; little minds have wishes. Little minds are subdued by misfortunes; great minds rise above them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces, I would be happy to entertain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30043]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your great umbrage would care to meet my high dudgeon at 12 paces, I would be happy to entertain you at dawn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Geese appear high over us,pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,as in love or sleep, holdsthem to their way, clearin the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Geese appear high over us,pass, and the sky closes. Abandon,as in love or sleep, holdsthem to their way, clearin the ancient faith: what we needis here. And we pray, notfor new earth or heaven, but to bequiet in heart, and in eye,clear. What we need is here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13275]]></link><description><![CDATA[My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54850]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54921]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't beat them, join them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50995]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't beat them, join them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing is when the press call me a dizzy blonde - I got a B in Drama, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36404]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing is when the press call me a dizzy blonde - I got a B in Drama, a D in English, I did a hairdressing course and a beauty certificate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His influence and popularity among the core constituency of the revolution and the government ... [has put him] in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41306]]></link><description><![CDATA[His influence and popularity among the core constituency of the revolution and the government ... [has put him] in a situation where other figures cannot contradict him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45216]]></link><description><![CDATA[In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have circled, and they are now closing in. It's not looking good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28954]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have circled, and they are now closing in. It's not looking good.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19597]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad men excuse their faults, good men will leave them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd just as soon a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why;  A king cannot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd just as soon a beggar as king, And the reason I'll tell you for why;  A king cannot swagger, not drink like a beggar,   Nor be half so happy as I.    . . . .     Let the back and side go bare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who praises everybody, praises nobody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48025]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who praises everybody, praises nobody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou dost shame That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!   Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!    Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight     But when her humorous ladyship is by      To teach thee safety!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25299]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creature;But still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid feature:Yet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extended;An atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended. - Epistle to a Young Friend, An.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Divine Wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7760]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Divine Wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1276]]></link><description><![CDATA[If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a friendship set to music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a friendship set to music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visits always give pleasure - if not the arrival, the departure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7508]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual walk with God. Those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it; yet I do not advise you to do it from that motive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2437]]></link><description><![CDATA[It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is run by C students. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13533]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is run by C students.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23956]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus was all virtue, and acted from impulse, not from rules.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5226]]></link><description><![CDATA[History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think this is an issue that should not be politicized but has to be addressed with clinical objectivity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36692]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think this is an issue that should not be politicized but has to be addressed with clinical objectivity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12681]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46627</guid></item></channel></rss>