<?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[Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on a tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is not a struggle. It's a wiggle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Except in the sacred texts of democracy and in the incantations of orators, we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force. What other virtue can there be in fifty-one percent except the brute fact that fifty-one is more than forty-nine? The rule of fifty-one per cent is a convenience, it is for certain matters a satisfactory political device, it is for others the lesser of two evils, and for others it is acceptable because we do not know any less troublesome method of obtaining a political decision. But it may easily become an absurd tyranny if we regard it worshipfully, as though it were more than a political device. We have lost all sense of its true meaning when we imagine that the opinion of fifty-one per cent is in some high fashion the true opinion of the whole hundred per cent, or indulge in the sophistry that the rule of a majority is based upon the ultimate equality of man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50825]]></link><description><![CDATA[His bloated paunch stands forth projecting a good eighteen inches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This dynamic week celebrates small business owners' accomplishments, but also encourages these winners to continue their growth. You embody self-reliance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28543]]></link><description><![CDATA[This dynamic week celebrates small business owners' accomplishments, but also encourages these winners to continue their growth. You embody self-reliance, perseverance, hard work and optimism.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19677]]></link><description><![CDATA[No such thing as a man willing to be honest -- that would be like a blind man willing to see.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on the unthankful and undeserving?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23395]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all boil at different degrees ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19945]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all boil at different degrees]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29465]]></link><description><![CDATA[I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is my greatest enemy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is my greatest enemy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32125]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have any formula for ousting a dictator or building democracy. All I can suggest is to forget about yourself and just think of your people. It's always the people who make things happen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27259]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? They have the same enemy-- the mother.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53949]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. -Dinah Shore.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yon nightingale, whose strain so sweetly flows, Mourning her ravish'd young or much-loved mate,  A soothing charm o'er all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yon nightingale, whose strain so sweetly flows, Mourning her ravish'd young or much-loved mate,  A soothing charm o'er all the valleys throws   And skies, with notes well tuned to her and state.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignore it. No answer is necessary, Your Excellency. The president does not know his place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignore it. No answer is necessary, Your Excellency. The president does not know his place.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like Christmas. Everything is real, but not as it seems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40626]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like Christmas. Everything is real, but not as it seems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[after being married to Bill for more than 50 years, I don't really know where to start. I miss him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33032]]></link><description><![CDATA[after being married to Bill for more than 50 years, I don't really know where to start. I miss him all the time...I was not with him that night, because I felt like I was coming down with the flu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law is above the law, you know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24277]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law is above the law, you know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53324]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53324</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17165]]></link><description><![CDATA[No wife can endure a gambling husband, unless he is a steady winner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls   To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Souls   To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see It through a little cranny.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skips (elevators) that once lifted about 4 tons of salt to the surface were eventually replaced with hydraulic hoists ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skips (elevators) that once lifted about 4 tons of salt to the surface were eventually replaced with hydraulic hoists that can bring up as much as 19 tons,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the most necessary quality for business, many a man would rather you heard his story than grant his request.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you cling to an idea as the inalterable truth, then when the truth does come in person and knock ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55060]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you cling to an idea as the inalterable truth, then when the truth does come in person and knock at your door, you will not be able to open the door and accept it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20743]]></link><description><![CDATA[Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3938]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Repentance is good, but innocence better ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Repentance is good, but innocence better]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much money. That was a true but incomplete answer. In fact, women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This initiative is being financed by Californians who want to try it in Colorado instead of their own backyard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39623]]></link><description><![CDATA[This initiative is being financed by Californians who want to try it in Colorado instead of their own backyard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56334]]></link><description><![CDATA[In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[a lot of elephants are running around with donkey jacketsin the Democratic Party. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11559]]></link><description><![CDATA[a lot of elephants are running around with donkey jacketsin the Democratic Party.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forbeare not sowing because of birds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forbeare not sowing because of birds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37970]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our pitchers just need to pitch and let the other team hit the ball, and more than likely we'll get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our pitchers just need to pitch and let the other team hit the ball, and more than likely we'll get them out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your child is missing, you're so aware that every minute counts. I know the issuing of the AMBER Alert ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33187]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your child is missing, you're so aware that every minute counts. I know the issuing of the AMBER Alert played a role in our daughter's safe return. It's better to have [the system] conceived and in place and working for us. So many people called us during those terrifying hours and wanted to help. The AMBER Alert system enables friends and even complete strangers to do that.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64563]]></link><description><![CDATA[We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves. -Unknown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the leader who seeks the best for those he serves. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be able to say how much love, is love but little. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2168]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be able to say how much love, is love but little.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Margery Kempe, Mystic, after 1433   Too many of us have a Christian vocabulary rather than a Christian experience. We think we are doing our duty when we're only talking about it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53430</guid></item></channel></rss>