<?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[Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined,  Loves to commune ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined,  Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,--   A shining Jacob's-ladder of the mind!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A severe war lurks under the show of peace. [Lat., Mars gravior sub pace latet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45879]]></link><description><![CDATA[A severe war lurks under the show of peace. [Lat., Mars gravior sub pace latet.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19383]]></link><description><![CDATA[To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,  Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17200]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they him spy, As wild geese that the creeping fowler eye,  Or russet-pated choughs, many in sort,   Rising and cawing at the gun's report,    Sever themselves and madly sweep the sky;     So at his sight away his fellows fly,      And at our stamp here o'er and o'er one falls;       He murder cries and help from Athens calls.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52723]]></link><description><![CDATA[By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1701]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Democrats think Republicans are stealing elections. The Republicans think Democrats are stealing elections. And those of us independent of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Democrats think Republicans are stealing elections. The Republicans think Democrats are stealing elections. And those of us independent of the two old parties know they are both right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65303]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16280]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10596]]></link><description><![CDATA[Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56912]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19407]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been "great changes.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positive anything is better than negative nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positive anything is better than negative nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you will study the history of Christ's ministry from Baptism to Ascension, you will discover that it is mostly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7429]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you will study the history of Christ's ministry from Baptism to Ascension, you will discover that it is mostly made up of little words, little deeds, little prayers, little sympathies, adding themselves together in unwearied succession. The Gospel is full of divine attempts to help and heal, in the body, mind and heart, individual men. The completed beauty of Christ's life is only the added beauty of little inconspicuous acts of beauty -- talking with the woman at the well; going far up into the North country to talk with the Syrophenician woman; showing the young ruler the stealthy ambition laid away in his heart, that kept him out of the kingdom of Heaven; shedding a tear at the grave of Lazarus; teaching a little knot of followers how to pray; preaching the Gospel one Sunday afternoon to two disciples going out to Emmaus; kindling a fire and broiling fish, that His disciples might have a breakfast waiting for them when they came ashore after a night of fishing, cold, tired, discouraged. All of these things, you see, let us in so easily into the real quality and tone of God's interests, so specific, so narrowed down, so enlisted in what is small, so engrossed in what is minute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23950]]></link><description><![CDATA[The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54993]]></link><description><![CDATA[To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56933]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone taken as an individual, is tolerably sensible and reasonable- as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2528]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can see the improvement. I can do so many things now offensively. Last year, I was still trying to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can see the improvement. I can do so many things now offensively. Last year, I was still trying to figure things out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49925]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two great things you can give your children: one isroots, the other is wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two great things you can give your children: one isroots, the other is wings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I culled the cream of the crop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39222]]></link><description><![CDATA[I culled the cream of the crop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22853]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44734]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[had everything to live for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29904]]></link><description><![CDATA[had everything to live for.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the corporate perspective, open source is a means, not an end, and if you confuse those you're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34574]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the corporate perspective, open source is a means, not an end, and if you confuse those you're going to have problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45847]]></link><description><![CDATA[In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary, patriotism is defined as the last refuge of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46935]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no need to hide the reality from the world. Unless something is done urgently, the situation will most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34826]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no need to hide the reality from the world. Unless something is done urgently, the situation will most certainly spiral out of control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One must talk about everything according to its nature, how it comes to be and how it grows. Men have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44804]]></link><description><![CDATA[One must talk about everything according to its nature, how it comes to be and how it grows. Men have talked about the world without paying attention to the world of their own minds, as if they were asleep or absent-minded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21685]]></link><description><![CDATA[How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours!  For all are happy and rich and great  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46842]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, poet-dreamer, within those walls What triumphs shall be yours!  For all are happy and rich and great   In that City of By-and-by.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her way,   Laying foundations every day,    Though not for Public Buildings, yet     For Custard, Cake and Omelette.      Of if too old for such a use       They have their fling at some abuse,        As when to censure Plays Unfit         Upon the stage they make a Hit          Or at elections seal the Fate           Of an Obnoxious Candidate.            No wonder, Child, we prize the Hen,             Whose Egg is Mightier than the Pen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ready for negotiation, but they should talk to us directly and not through the media. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35713]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ready for negotiation, but they should talk to us directly and not through the media.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I finally realized why I am so crazy about women... I am, in fact, a lesbian trapped in a man's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36842]]></link><description><![CDATA[I finally realized why I am so crazy about women... I am, in fact, a lesbian trapped in a man's body!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids were really shocked to learn that genocide is still happening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids were really shocked to learn that genocide is still happening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are ready to talk, but it is just an exploratory conversation, since Brazil isn't negotiating with the United Kingdom. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31255]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are ready to talk, but it is just an exploratory conversation, since Brazil isn't negotiating with the United Kingdom. The negotiation involves the G-20 (the group of 21 developing countries), Europe, and the United States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is as important as anything I've done as an owner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40684]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is as important as anything I've done as an owner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64165]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19422]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A brute without a single redeeming point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50421]]></link><description><![CDATA[A brute without a single redeeming point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50421</guid></item></channel></rss>