<?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[When the bones have become most dry, when they are lying most scattered and separate from each other, there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6998]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the bones have become most dry, when they are lying most scattered and separate from each other, there is still a word going forth -- from Him who liveth for ever and ever -- the voice which says, "These bones shall rise."   All struggles after union, though they may be of the most abortive kind, though they may produce fresh sects and fresh divisions, though they must do so as long as they rest on the notion that unity is something visible and material, yet indicate a deep and divine necessity which men could not be conscious of in their dreams if they were not beginning to wake.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17781]]></link><description><![CDATA[What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That question fills me with euphoria. We don't want to bog ourselves down with thinking too much. We want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29990]]></link><description><![CDATA[That question fills me with euphoria. We don't want to bog ourselves down with thinking too much. We want to go and enjoy the experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most pleasing thing about the game was to see Gareth come through 30 minutes unscathed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most pleasing thing about the game was to see Gareth come through 30 minutes unscathed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16492]]></link><description><![CDATA[To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54105]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are born.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27954]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/125]]></link><description><![CDATA[If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Universal peace sounds ridiculous to the head of an average family.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It may seem absurd to some that all desires by which man is by nature affected are so completely condemned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7828]]></link><description><![CDATA[It may seem absurd to some that all desires by which man is by nature affected are so completely condemned -- although they have been bestowed by God himself, the author of nature. To this I reply that we do not condemn those inclinations which God so engraved upon the character of man at his first creation, that they were eradicable only with humanity itself; but only those bold and unbridled impulses which contend against God's control.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox and the MonkeyA monkey once danced in an assembly of the Beasts, and so pleased them all by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1572]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox and the MonkeyA monkey once danced in an assembly of the Beasts, and so pleased them all by his performance that they elected him their King. A Fox, envying him the honor, discovered a piece of meat lying in a trap, and leading the Monkey to the place where it was, said that she had found a store, but had not used it, she had kept it for him as treasure trove of his kingdom, and counseled him to lay hold of it. The Monkey approached carelessly and was caught in the trap; and on his accusing the Fox of purposely leading him into the snare, she replied, O Monkey, and are you, with such a mind as yours, going to be King over the Beasts?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10033]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36051]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product that works for them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should a man whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? -The Merchant of Venice. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should a man whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster? -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great souls by instinct to each other turn, Demand alliance, and in friendship burn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew my shot wasn't dropping, so the next thing is to rebound, make my free throws, and block shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31580]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew my shot wasn't dropping, so the next thing is to rebound, make my free throws, and block shots.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48685</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/21701]]></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/21701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25742]]></link><description><![CDATA[When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like you, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22303]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no shame in finding someone else to be attractive, or good company. Even if they don't like you, there is still no shame. If you happen to be fond of someone, and they're not fond of you, it's OK.. You don't have to wait and see if they'll love you back. You can announce it.. Joy in life comes from expressing ourselves, in taking risks and jumping in. Everyone is not going to like you. But you can like who you like.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53163]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little rebellion now and then ... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12433]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to put the kids at ease and focus on the things that they're going to need to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32201]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to put the kids at ease and focus on the things that they're going to need to get past the falling-down part. Instead of telling them, 'Oh, well, this first day or two is going to be brutal,' the focus is on the things that will really help them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute power corrupts even when exercised for humane purposes. The benevolent despot who sees himself as a shepherd of the people still demands from others the submissiveness of sheep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that envy others are their inferiors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14049]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that envy others are their inferiors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you cant recall it, forget ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35886]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you cant recall it, forget it).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Widespread caffeine use explains a lot about the twentieth century.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever hath an interest in any one promise hath an interest in them all, and in the fountain-love from whence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7068]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever hath an interest in any one promise hath an interest in them all, and in the fountain-love from whence they flow. He to whom any drop of their sweetness floweth may follow it up into the spring. Were we wise, each taste of mercy would lead us to the ocean of love. Have we any hold on a promise? We may get upon it, and it will bring us to the main, Christ Himself and the Spirit, and so into the bosom of the Father. It is our folly to abide upon a little, which is given us merely to make us press for more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21817]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66123]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20192]]></link><description><![CDATA[A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You talk about some destiny out here. We got guys out there with a lot of heart and they went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32974]]></link><description><![CDATA[You talk about some destiny out here. We got guys out there with a lot of heart and they went all the way down to the wire to show it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witch's mummy, maw and gulf  Of the ravined salt-sea shark,   Root ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf, Witch's mummy, maw and gulf  Of the ravined salt-sea shark,   Root of hemlock digged i' th' dark,    Liver of blaspheming Jew,     Gall of goat, and slips of yew      Slivered in the moon's eclipse,       Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips,        Finger of birth-strangled babe         Ditch-delivered by a drab          Make the gruel thick and slab.           Add there to a tiger's chaudron            For th' ingredience of our cauldron.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2169]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll sit contentedly, and eat our pot of honey on the grave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9496]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...' -Isaac Asimov.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26174]]></link><description><![CDATA[No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35765]]></link><description><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been ''tattooed'' with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements . Even the most chronically dispossessed appear prepared to endorse the legitimacy of the ''haves.'']]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19599]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. Byron.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63311</guid></item></channel></rss>