<?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[One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/978]]></link><description><![CDATA[One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Greater consumption due to increase in population and growth of income heightens scarcity and induces price run-ups. A higher price represents an opportunity that leads inventors and businesspeople to seek new ways to satisfy the shortages. Some fail, at cost to themselves. A few succeed, and the final result is that we end up better off than if the original shortage problems had never arisen. That is, we need our problems, though this does not imply that we should purposely create additional problems for ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chuse not an house neere an lnne (viz. for noise) or in a corner (for filth).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The birds have ceased their songs, All save the blackbird, that from yon tall ash,  'Mid Pinkie's greenery, from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4283]]></link><description><![CDATA[The birds have ceased their songs, All save the blackbird, that from yon tall ash,  'Mid Pinkie's greenery, from his mellow throat,   In adoration of the setting sun,    Chants forth his evening hymn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58105]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got the looks that we wanted. The shots didn't fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41771]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got the looks that we wanted. The shots didn't fall.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think he's probably done his best work at the bully pulpit. Compare and contrast with his two predecessors, who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32875]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think he's probably done his best work at the bully pulpit. Compare and contrast with his two predecessors, who either didn't like it or weren't capable of using it to its fullest extent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! on Thanksgiving day, when from East and from West, From North and South, come the pilgrim and guest,  When the gray-haired New Englander sees round his board   The old broken links of affection restored,    When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more,     And the worn matron smiles where the girl smiled before.      What moistens the lips and what brightens the eye?       What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26781]]></link><description><![CDATA["Mediocrity" doesn't mean average intelligence, it means an average intelligence that resents and envies its betters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never be so brief as to become obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never be so brief as to become obscure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6407]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48394]]></link><description><![CDATA[God promises a safe landing but not a calm passage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smoke ascends In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires  Shine and are changed. In the valley   Shadows ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44526]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smoke ascends In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires  Shine and are changed. In the valley   Shadows rise. The lark sings on. The sun    Closing his benediction,     Sinks, and the darkening air      Thrills with the sense of the triumphing night,--       Night with train of stars        And her great gift of sleep.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61219]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66129]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This appears to be a very viable solution. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33937]]></link><description><![CDATA[This appears to be a very viable solution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is one short letter of danger. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is one short letter of danger.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the proper end and object of authority, and cannot subsist without it; and it is liberty to that which is good, just, and honest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall,  Where the dear Lord was crucified   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6121]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall,  Where the dear Lord was crucified   Who died to save us all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I want to do my best for them, and I want to want to help the team do well in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30002]]></link><description><![CDATA[I want to do my best for them, and I want to want to help the team do well in 2007,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are the people our parents warned us about. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47637]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are the people our parents warned us about.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -King John. Act iv. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55796]]></link><description><![CDATA[And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. -King John. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18835]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Putin asked us not to mention a single country in the G8 final document and we did that, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Putin asked us not to mention a single country in the G8 final document and we did that,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blood is thicker than water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blood is thicker than water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are really getting it going towards the end of the season. I really think this week the team's chemistry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38209]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are really getting it going towards the end of the season. I really think this week the team's chemistry is great. They are really excited and are supporting each other going into the final stretch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10554]]></link><description><![CDATA[The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58196]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5265]]></link><description><![CDATA[My career should adapt to me. Fame is like a VIP pass wherever you want to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8947]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax. Work is for people with jobs. You'll never remember class time, but you'll remember time you wasted hanging out with your friends. So, stay out late. Go out on a Tuesday with your friends when you have a paper due Wednesday. Spend money you don't have. Drink 'til sunrise. The work never ends, but college does..."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53335]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All this for a song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57211]]></link><description><![CDATA[All this for a song.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64725]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812   Relieve and comfort all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812   Relieve and comfort all the persecuted and afflicted; speak peace to troubled consciences; strengthen the weak; confirm the strong; instruct the ignorant; deliver the oppressed from him that spoileth him; and relieve the needy that hath no helper; and bring us all, by the waters of comfort, and in the ways of righteousness, to the kingdom of rest and glory, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man of one book. [Lat., Homo unius libri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4527]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man of one book. [Lat., Homo unius libri.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14757]]></link><description><![CDATA[After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you count all your assets, you always show a profit ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48340]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you count all your assets, you always show a profit]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to show how the university feels and show how the students feel and see how much of that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to show how the university feels and show how the students feel and see how much of that is really true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a black and white issue - it's not a question of whether we care or don't. It's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38473]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a black and white issue - it's not a question of whether we care or don't. It's not an either/or issue and does us no good to set this example for our kids or community-at-large, to reduce our concerns to simplistic clichÃƒÂƒÃ‚Â©s. Just because something has been declared legal doesn't mean that it is right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58345]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you do not raise your eyes you will think you are the highest point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thanks are justly due for things got without purchase. [Lat., Gratia pro rebus merito debetur inemtis.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are bugs everywhere. We share the world with bugs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39767]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are bugs everywhere. We share the world with bugs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Far out at sea,--the sun was high, While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail,  We saw a snow-white ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Far out at sea,--the sun was high, While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail,  We saw a snow-white butterfly   Dancing before the fitful gale,    Far out at sea.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5151</guid></item></channel></rss>