<?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[Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pontius Pilate was the first great censor, and Jesus Christ the first great victim of censorship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you ask what their priority in life was, it was their children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33830]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you ask what their priority in life was, it was their children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These recommendations are another part of the charitable sector?s commitment to come together and ensure that its organizations meet the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33562]]></link><description><![CDATA[These recommendations are another part of the charitable sector?s commitment to come together and ensure that its organizations meet the highest possible ethical standards. The Panel will continue to work with the sector and government officials to encourage implementation of its comprehensive proposals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing.   - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasons are not like garments, the worse for wearing.   - Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How bless'd, how envied, were our life, Could we but scape the poulterer's knife!  But man, curs'd man, on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8631]]></link><description><![CDATA[How bless'd, how envied, were our life, Could we but scape the poulterer's knife!  But man, curs'd man, on Turkeys preys,   And Christmas shortens all our days:    Sometimes with oysters we combine,     Sometimes assist the savory chine;      From the low peasant to the lord,       The Turkey smokes on every board.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes when we love we are stuck loving someone who has no desire to change, or no desire to work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes when we love we are stuck loving someone who has no desire to change, or no desire to work things out with us in an effort to make things better, or to keep the relationship on a track of growth and fulfillment. There comes a point in time in some relationships that we must realize the only option that we have to live a good life is to let what is weighing us down in life go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62204]]></link><description><![CDATA[The severe schools shall never laugh me out of the philosophy of Hermes, that this visible world is but a picture of the invisible, wherein as in a portrait, things are not truly, but in equivocal shapes, and as they counterfeit some real substance in that invisible fabric.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never use the word "nation" in speaking of the United States. I always use the word "Union" or "Confederacy." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60130]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never use the word "nation" in speaking of the United States. I always use the word "Union" or "Confederacy." We are not a nation but a union, a confederacy of equal and sovereign States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. -Anthony J. D'Angelo. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months. -Anthony J. D'Angelo.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53342]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1143]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it is as bewildering as trying to know how you really look. Ten different mirrors show you ten different faces.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're doing fundraising, providing food, housing clothing, whatever she needs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30379]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're doing fundraising, providing food, housing clothing, whatever she needs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45358]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51646]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a woman is undisguisedly bad, then indeed she is good. [Comparatively speaking, as she at least lacks deception.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26634]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my hut this spring, there is nothing -- there is everything!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63012]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not want　only destroy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44990]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14886]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idle men are the devil's playfellows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idle men are the devil's playfellows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to close it again on something solid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to close it again on something solid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No hair so small but hath his shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49650]]></link><description><![CDATA[No hair so small but hath his shadow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patients may postpone getting needed effective treatment, because they are instead relying on alternative remedies that haven't been tested, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patients may postpone getting needed effective treatment, because they are instead relying on alternative remedies that haven't been tested, ... The second danger is that they may actually be harmful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43476]]></link><description><![CDATA[After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. [Lat., Haud igitur ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44671]]></link><description><![CDATA[Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements. [Lat., Haud igitur redit ad Nihilum res ulla, sed omnes  Discidio redeunt in corpora materiai.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44805]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the theory that decides what can be observed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone must row with the oars he has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone must row with the oars he has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take  Occasion by the hand, and make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57854]]></link><description><![CDATA[And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons when to take  Occasion by the hand, and make   The bounds of freedom wider yet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look wise; say nothing and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You knowwhy? While you're carrying a grudge, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21970]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You knowwhy? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise men make more opportunities than they find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise men make more opportunities than they find.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially insofar as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Down comes rain drop, bubble follows; On the house-top one by one  Flock the synagogue of swallows,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Down comes rain drop, bubble follows; On the house-top one by one  Flock the synagogue of swallows,   Met to vote that autumn's gone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22036]]></link><description><![CDATA[Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like instant replay, ... We left [the 2009 vote] dejected and depressed. It's great to have a second shot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33651]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like instant replay, ... We left [the 2009 vote] dejected and depressed. It's great to have a second shot.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56432]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tobacco operating fundamentals sequentially strengthened from the first to the second quarter, and third-quarter performance generally retained that stronger momentum. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tobacco operating fundamentals sequentially strengthened from the first to the second quarter, and third-quarter performance generally retained that stronger momentum. Results are also particularly encouraging, in our view, given Kraft's continued weak and disappointing overall operating performance...[Philip Morris USA] is delivering an improved balance of market share and operating profit performance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rape is the only crime in which the victim becomes the accused.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13648]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only method by which people can be supported is out of the effort of those who are earning their own way. We must not create a deterrent to hard work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a big urn in the billiard room and it was black, but I wondered if it was brass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30141]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a big urn in the billiard room and it was black, but I wondered if it was brass.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The [Christian] "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The [Christian] "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes two men to make one brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66119]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes two men to make one brother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29086</guid></item></channel></rss>