<?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[The Lion, the Mouse, and the FoxA lion, fatigued by the heat of a summer's day, fell fast asleep in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1560]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Lion, the Mouse, and the FoxA lion, fatigued by the heat of a summer's day, fell fast asleep in his den. A Mouse ran over his mane and ears and woke him from his slumbers. He rose up and shook himself in great wrath, and searched every corner of his den to find the Mouse. A Fox seeing him said: A fine Lion you are, to be frightened of a Mouse. 'Tis not the Mouse I fear, said the Lion; I resent his familiarity and ill-breeding. Little liberties are great offenses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Community means people spending time together here, and I don't think there's really that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We know how important this is to the individual and we're trying to work with them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38943]]></link><description><![CDATA[We know how important this is to the individual and we're trying to work with them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17167]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the healthiest ways to gamble is with a spade and a package of garden seeds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than arich person who is unhappy because the poor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22368]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than arich person who is unhappy because the poor person has hope. He thinksmoney will help.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches have them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46309]]></link><description><![CDATA[We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands,  Ring'd with the azure world, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13105]]></link><description><![CDATA[He clasps the crag with hooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands,  Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.   The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls:    He watches from his mountain walls,     And like a thunderbolt he falls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Era of good feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Era of good feeling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll take any trophy. I don't care what it says on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3576]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll take any trophy. I don't care what it says on it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6626]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless Thou enablest me"; and... then he received strength more than sufficient. When he had failed in his duty, he simply confessed his fault, saying to God, "I shall never do otherwise if Thou leavest me to myself; it is Thou who must hinder my falling, and mend what is amiss." After this, he gave himself no further uneasiness about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The opposition Press] which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23325]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The opposition Press] which is in the hands of malecontents who have failed in their career.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13415]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live peaceably with all breedes good blood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50009]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live peaceably with all breedes good blood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 times -- in water, in butter and in wine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fish, to taste right, must swim 3 times -- in water, in butter and in wine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one pays me to be nice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28187]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one pays me to be nice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grant that I may never rack a Scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof, lest, instead of sucking milk, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grant that I may never rack a Scripture simile beyond the true intent thereof, lest, instead of sucking milk, I squeeze blood out of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished,  I'll hang my head and perish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished,  I'll hang my head and perish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are declining to discuss the details of the bargaining. We're doing our bargaining at the table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41655]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are declining to discuss the details of the bargaining. We're doing our bargaining at the table.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60987]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is best to know the worst at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50875]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is best to know the worst at once.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Autumn Into earth's lap does throw  Brown apples gay in a game of play,   As the equinoctials ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Autumn Into earth's lap does throw  Brown apples gay in a game of play,   As the equinoctials blow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When man to man shall be friend and brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4948]]></link><description><![CDATA[When man to man shall be friend and brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was totally bewildered. It wasn't easy for him. He had the hardest time of the bunch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35251]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was totally bewildered. It wasn't easy for him. He had the hardest time of the bunch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   We are not only to renounce evil, but to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   We are not only to renounce evil, but to manifest the truth. We tell people the world is vain; let our lives manifest that it is so. We tell them that our home is above and that all these things are transitory. Does our dwelling look like it? O to live consistent lives!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21305]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15740]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxation WITH representation ain't so hot either.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's all got to be cleaned up. The stock market's going to struggle until that happens, and the economy at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42250]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's all got to be cleaned up. The stock market's going to struggle until that happens, and the economy at large will feel like it's moving through molasses, even though it will be moving forward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy; Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast no faults, or I no faults can spy; Thou art all beauty, or all blindness I.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage and perseverance have a magic talisman, before which difficulties and obstacles vanish into air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very happy for him. . . . He was heartbroken here once, ... But that's all over now. I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29673]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very happy for him. . . . He was heartbroken here once, ... But that's all over now. I told him he had to face these things in life . . . to make a man of himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17189]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prudent man does not make the goat his gardener.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8027]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware Of entrance to a quarrel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware Of entrance to a quarrel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not only the living who are killed in war.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64356]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not only the living who are killed in war.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far and relaxed too much.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is very little disease here. We have not been seeing the diseases that many people around the country feared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32275]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is very little disease here. We have not been seeing the diseases that many people around the country feared.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[get the message out that limbs can be saved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35037]]></link><description><![CDATA[get the message out that limbs can be saved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26183]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing Under the sky's gray arch;  Smiling I watch the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26377]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing Under the sky's gray arch;  Smiling I watch the shaken elm boughs, knowing   It is the wind of March.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a handful of short stories, pretending to be a novel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27311]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/834]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/834</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[Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science." Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47397</guid></item></channel></rss>