<?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[Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benefits are acceptable, while the receiver thinks he may return them; but once exceeding that, hatred is given instead of thanks. [Lat., Beneficia usque eo laeta sunt dum videntur exsolvi posse; ubi multum antevenere pro gratia odium redditur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a tough guy for a lefty with the motion he has. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30326]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a tough guy for a lefty with the motion he has.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We, that would be known The father of our people, in our study,  And vigilance for their safety, must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45798]]></link><description><![CDATA[We, that would be known The father of our people, in our study,  And vigilance for their safety, must not change   Their ploughshares into swords, and force them from    The secure shade of their own vines, to be     Scorched with the flames of war.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We put a bite of food from every dish onto each plate and when they've gone through the line, their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42373]]></link><description><![CDATA[We put a bite of food from every dish onto each plate and when they've gone through the line, their plates are piled high. They were stuffed last year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee  To make the charmed body   Almost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27454]]></link><description><![CDATA[O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee  To make the charmed body   Almost like spirit be,    And give it some faint glimpses     Of immortality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,  And to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,  And to the false, error and truth alike,   Error is worse than ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For African American ideals, "The Promised Land" is not a land to be "reclaimed" after hundreds, or even thousands, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39192]]></link><description><![CDATA[For African American ideals, "The Promised Land" is not a land to be "reclaimed" after hundreds, or even thousands, of years, citing God as the real estate agent. The Promised Land doesn't echo the injustices of the past by, in part, replicating them upon others. The Promised Land is the creation of a just society with an appreciation for the diversity of all humanity and equality for all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology is Anthropology. [Ger., Die Theologie ist die Anthropologie.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology is Anthropology. [Ger., Die Theologie ist die Anthropologie.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is useless to send armies against ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9555]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is useless to send armies against ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25046]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was a burning and shining light: and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Exercise: you don't have time not to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Exercise: you don't have time not to]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God himself favors the brave. [Lat., Audentes deus ipse juvat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4865]]></link><description><![CDATA[God himself favors the brave. [Lat., Audentes deus ipse juvat.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18464]]></link><description><![CDATA[How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty drawes more then oxen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty drawes more then oxen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do you keep something alive and make it commercially viable? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37111]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do you keep something alive and make it commercially viable?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very energized but, I also recognize the enormity of our challenge, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36963]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very energized but, I also recognize the enormity of our challenge,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although many machines have been disinfected, we're certainly not out of the woods yet. Many machines may still be infected ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although many machines have been disinfected, we're certainly not out of the woods yet. Many machines may still be infected without their owner's knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hier lies that should fetch a perfect woman over the coles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hier lies that should fetch a perfect woman over the coles.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28105]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sick StagA sick stag lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sick StagA sick stag lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, and each one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his use; so that he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the means of living. Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34302]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15184]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of their time each day.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We'd like to influence them to let us have some say in what goes on and to convince them to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33910]]></link><description><![CDATA[We'd like to influence them to let us have some say in what goes on and to convince them to hire local workers,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most men need patience to die, but a saint who understands what death admits him to should rather need patience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54651]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most men need patience to die, but a saint who understands what death admits him to should rather need patience to live]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1417]]></link><description><![CDATA[How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience has two things to teach: the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience has two things to teach: the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second, that we must not correct too much]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world, the flesh, the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world, the flesh, the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field,  Still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field,  Still on their dinner turn--   Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,    And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[(I-Newswire) - In the free event, Bell will read from] No Planets Strike, ... Edgy in both senses of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38737]]></link><description><![CDATA[[(I-Newswire) - In the free event, Bell will read from] No Planets Strike, ... Edgy in both senses of the word, Josh Bell populates his daft American heartland with the runaway muse Ramona and her clones. The resulting landscapes are as dangerous, funny, and drop-dead gorgeous as those in a Road Runner cartoon.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45522]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a child is to keep his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in. -Rachel Carson.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change  And pleased with novelty, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60424]]></link><description><![CDATA[The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change  And pleased with novelty, might be indulged.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rivalry is the life of trade, and the death of the trader]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all "not of blood". You don't get it through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all "not of blood". You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this. Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bee's favorite couplet: a sunup brimming buttercuplet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1638]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bee's favorite couplet: a sunup brimming buttercuplet.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most countries, if you have drugs in your possession, in your suitcase or on you, the fact that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33676]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most countries, if you have drugs in your possession, in your suitcase or on you, the fact that you don't know about it or you were set up or you're carrying someone else's bag -- that is no excuse whatsoever and you're gonna be sentenced to the full extent of the law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The very staff of my age, my very prop. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55572]]></link><description><![CDATA[The very staff of my age, my very prop. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the doubts and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The character, the counsels, and example of our Washington . . . they will guide us through the doubts and difficulties that beset us; they will guide our children and our children's children in the paths of prosperity and peace, while America shall hold her place in the family of nations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until one has loved an animal a part of one\'s soul remains unawakened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until one has loved an animal a part of one\'s soul remains unawakened.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58452]]></link><description><![CDATA[The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66812]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth,  And that was shining on him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14853]]></link><description><![CDATA[And to his eye There was but one beloved face on earth,  And that was shining on him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47103]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47103</guid></item></channel></rss>