<?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[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An art book is a museum without walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66652]]></link><description><![CDATA[An art book is a museum without walls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 8 Equities: Physical, Spiritual, Psychological, Intellectual,Emotional, Financial, Social and Family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21909]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 8 Equities: Physical, Spiritual, Psychological, Intellectual,Emotional, Financial, Social and Family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58905]]></link><description><![CDATA[How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes deeds ill done!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16603]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because in herself she is nothing, but is ruled by prudence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unintelligent people always look for a scapegoat.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;  And out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1730]]></link><description><![CDATA[For oute of olde feldys, as men sey, Comyth al this newe corn from yere to yere;  And out of old bokis, in good fey,   Comyth al this newe science that men lere.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3267]]></link><description><![CDATA[An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27099]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ne'er take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14382]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22862]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14272]]></link><description><![CDATA[The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order: the continuous thread of revelation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43620]]></link><description><![CDATA[The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole musical landscape is being organized through the choreography. It was as if the dancers themselves became my score. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole musical landscape is being organized through the choreography. It was as if the dancers themselves became my score.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2727]]></link><description><![CDATA[If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies. . . . It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though good faith should be banished from the rest of the world, it should be found in the mouths of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though good faith should be banished from the rest of the world, it should be found in the mouths of kings. [Fr., Si la bonne foi etait bannie du reste du monde, il faudrait qu'on la trouvat dans la bouche des rois.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  It may well be that the unknowable name stands ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901  It may well be that the unknowable name stands for the ultimate mystery of Jesus Christ. His love we can experience; His salvation we can appropriate; His help we can claim; but their remains in Him the divine mystery of the Incarnation, which is beyond our understanding, and before which we can only worship and adore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People see themselves as the center of the universe and judgeeverything as it relates to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21178]]></link><description><![CDATA[People see themselves as the center of the universe and judgeeverything as it relates to them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of doors could open for me that night. I have a job now as a server at a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31247]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of doors could open for me that night. I have a job now as a server at a restaurant but I really want something full-time and I am hoping to meet some people that night that might be able to point me in the right direction. Plus, I am so nervous about speaking in front of all those people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13829]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;  But you with pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;  But you with pleasure own your errors past,   And make each day a critique on the last.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope that after they get their degrees, they'll make their home and careers back in Texas, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34174]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope that after they get their degrees, they'll make their home and careers back in Texas,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When someone is just trying to ball up on the bottom, that's when you know you have to throw something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33875]]></link><description><![CDATA[When someone is just trying to ball up on the bottom, that's when you know you have to throw something big. I just felt I had to go upper-body and throw him ... This is awesome to win three [WPIAL team titles]. It's just like winning the other two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10815]]></link><description><![CDATA[The merry cuckow, messenger of Spring, His trumpet shrill hath thrice already sounded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The heart] is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12598]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The heart] is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60612]]></link><description><![CDATA[I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47565]]></link><description><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard of the fundamental equality as regards the right to self-preservation, the creature in human shape who acts in this way is to be treated by any and all other rational humans as a wild, clever, and therefore very dangerous animal, to be destroyed (if necessary) in order to safeguard the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60562]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up -- sociologically, politically, and creatively -- I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the cleare we should see through it. -Jean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59357]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the cleare we should see through it. -Jean Paul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54577]]></link><description><![CDATA[The starting line of the New York City marathon is kind of a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56988]]></link><description><![CDATA[The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56920]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to predict the future is to invent it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's important to provide this support regularly, because at this stage there are still about 200,000 people who are refugees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's important to provide this support regularly, because at this stage there are still about 200,000 people who are refugees or displaced people in their home country. It is a huge proportion of the population that depends largely on international aid.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not for ever harassed by impotent desire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43811]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature's law affirm instead of prohibit. If you violate her laws, you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11299]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099   Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099   Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56496]]></link><description><![CDATA[An open mind, like an open window, should be screened to keep the bugs out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is thy gold--worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world,  Than these poor compounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4912]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is thy gold--worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world,  Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.   I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none    Farewell. Buy food and get thyself in flesh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cover your selfe with your shield, and care not for cryes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so I gave up everything for it - time, energy, research - I dropped everything and so yes False ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37722]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so I gave up everything for it - time, energy, research - I dropped everything and so yes False Impression to me was very important indeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37722</guid></item></channel></rss>