<?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 only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way of setting the will free is to deliver it from wilfulness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1260]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51864]]></link><description><![CDATA[How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14141]]></link><description><![CDATA[An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist. [Lat., In animo perturbato, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27514]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a disturbed mind, as in a body in the same state, health can not exist. [Lat., In animo perturbato, sicut in corpore, sanitas esse non potest.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39149]]></link><description><![CDATA[From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs, Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes, Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, A choking gall and a preserving sweet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not treasured wealth, nor the consul's lictor, can dispel the mind's bitter conflicts and the cares that flit, like bats, about your fretted roofs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bottom line is this -- for how long can the military remain restrained? That we are just around the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36739]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bottom line is this -- for how long can the military remain restrained? That we are just around the corner from a major confrontation is not in doubt.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65811]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10626]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more gross the fraud, the more glibly will it go down and the more greedily will it be swallowed, since folly will always find faith wherever imposters will find impudence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45924]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can always win a war, but how does one conquer peace?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60085]]></link><description><![CDATA[The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His native home deep imag'd in his soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19629]]></link><description><![CDATA[His native home deep imag'd in his soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song;  So shall the fair ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye tuneful cobblers! still your notes prolong, Compose at once a slipper and a song;  So shall the fair your handiwork peruse,   Your sonnets sure shall please--perhaps your shoes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have to have faith, I have experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65296]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have to have faith, I have experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1443]]></link><description><![CDATA[A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17136]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   The Bible is like a telescope. If a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893   The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53602]]></link><description><![CDATA[There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baghdad is at the heart of the major issues of our time. For a foreign correspondent it is a dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baghdad is at the heart of the major issues of our time. For a foreign correspondent it is a dream to be there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17729]]></link><description><![CDATA[There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For monarchs seldom sigh in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54498]]></link><description><![CDATA[For monarchs seldom sigh in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, ifhe is to be ultimately at peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21379]]></link><description><![CDATA[A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, ifhe is to be ultimately at peace with himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24846]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need a rest. You know what to get worked up about and what to get rid of. And you know when it's time to take care of yourself, for yourself. To do something that makes you stronger, faster, more complete. Because you know it's never too late to have a life. And never too late to change one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was simply amazed; in my 20-plus years as a funeral home director, I have never seen workers come out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40410]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was simply amazed; in my 20-plus years as a funeral home director, I have never seen workers come out in force in a display of respect as I had here today. There were state highway department workers at every intersection on the way to the cemetery and about 40 to 50 state trucks on hand. The Illinois Department of Transportation takes care of its own. It was very impressive.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've had to practically drag the kids out of there to let another group in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40747]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've had to practically drag the kids out of there to let another group in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the dogs were running away, all emaciated, weak, but they could still run. The strategy was to put ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the dogs were running away, all emaciated, weak, but they could still run. The strategy was to put food and water down so they would have something to eat. The ones boarded up were worse off; no light, mold, mildew and bacteria.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, Idefinitely overpaid for my carpet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22750]]></link><description><![CDATA[What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, Idefinitely overpaid for my carpet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly  Expression found its home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51084]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in the glances of his eye A penetrating keen and sly  Expression found its home.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3647]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44069]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is surprising what a man can do when he has to, and how little most men will do when they don't have to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's errors are what make him amiable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14176]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's errors are what make him amiable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements,  The wrecks of matter, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57266]]></link><description><![CDATA[But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements,  The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of giving orders is not to try to rectify the minor blunders and not to be swayed by petty doubts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is found in unlikely places.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy... is to set our own conditions to the events ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10044]]></link><description><![CDATA[To get up each morning with the resolve to be happy... is to set our own conditions to the events of each day. To do this is to condition circumstances instead of being conditioned by them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18039</guid></item></channel></rss>