<?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 supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61896]]></link><description><![CDATA[When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19603]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes truth is lost first in a church, and then holiness and sometimes the decay or hatred of holiness is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes truth is lost first in a church, and then holiness and sometimes the decay or hatred of holiness is the cause of the loss of truth. But if either is rejected, the other will not abide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The scale at which we have been sending it now is unprecedented. I haven't slept in days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The scale at which we have been sending it now is unprecedented. I haven't slept in days.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64318]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10941]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17761]]></link><description><![CDATA[One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's capable of amazing feats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29743]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's capable of amazing feats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Canada has never been a melting pot; more like a tossed salad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9145]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29528]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62180]]></link><description><![CDATA[What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...democracy can be interpreted to assert not only equality before the law but also essentialistic identity in all respects. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47578]]></link><description><![CDATA[...democracy can be interpreted to assert not only equality before the law but also essentialistic identity in all respects. This is expressed in the claim, "All men are created equal," which is something very different from the statement, "All men have equal rights and are equal before the law." Anyone who believes in the genetic uniqueness of every individual thereby believes in the conclusion, "No two individuals are created equal.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a grim one-horse hearse in a jolly round trot; To the churchyear a pauper is going I wot;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60071]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a grim one-horse hearse in a jolly round trot; To the churchyear a pauper is going I wot;  The road it is rough, and the hearse has no springs,   And hark to the dirge that the sad driver sings--    Rattle his bones over the stones,     He's only a pauper whom nobody owns.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That should keep them going for a while on the Ice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40007]]></link><description><![CDATA[That should keep them going for a while on the Ice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings, if it has had causes and beginnings; nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part, Nature in him was almost lost in art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part, Nature in him was almost lost in art.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53615]]></link><description><![CDATA[A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real challenge (in life) is to choose, hold, and operatethrough intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22434]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real challenge (in life) is to choose, hold, and operatethrough intelligent, uplifting, and fully empowering beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9643]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9643</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[We're here only playing golf and having a good time. But we're here for them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38768]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're here only playing golf and having a good time. But we're here for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Got no check books, got no banks. Still I'd like to express my thanks - I got the sun in the mornin' and the moon at night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is to be feared that the most of us know not how much glory may be in present grace, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6960]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is to be feared that the most of us know not how much glory may be in present grace, nor how much of heaven may be obtained in holiness on the earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught  Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61308]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught  Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips,   May give a shock of pleasure to the frame    More exquisite than when nectarean juice     Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office, and his tongue Sounds ever after as a sullen bell, Remember'd tolling a departing friend. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64109]]></link><description><![CDATA[To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First of all, I could not believe it, ... Nobody in their right mind would have expected this drop in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40858]]></link><description><![CDATA[First of all, I could not believe it, ... Nobody in their right mind would have expected this drop in pressure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas Aquinas, Priest, Teacher of the Faith, 1274  It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59772]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62686]]></link><description><![CDATA[ZOOLOGY, n. The science and history of the animal kingdom, including its king, the House Fly ("Musca maledicta"). The father of Zoology was Aristotle, as is universally conceded, but the name of its mother has not come down to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few realize how much injury the dogma that baptism is necessary for salvation, badly expounded, has entailed. As a consequence, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few realize how much injury the dogma that baptism is necessary for salvation, badly expounded, has entailed. As a consequence, they are less cautious. For, where the opinion has prevailed that all are lost who have not happened to be baptized with water, our condition is worse than that of God's ancient people -- as if the grace of God were now more restricted than under the Law!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58446]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and pleasure. [Lat., Cignoni non sine causa Apoloni dicata sint, quod ab eo divinationem habere videantur, qua providentes quid in morte boni sit, cum cantu et voluptate moriantur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29124]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was nice being offered the role and not having to audition,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20523]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54895]]></link><description><![CDATA[That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36268]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51631]]></link><description><![CDATA[That should be regarded as a loss, which is won at the expense of our reputation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51631</guid></item></channel></rss>