<?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[The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow. . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45499]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow. . -Thomas Bray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2639]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground--long heath, brown furze, anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground--long heath, brown furze, anything.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are still people - not as many now - calling and saying, 'Well I've been reporting this for two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40675]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are still people - not as many now - calling and saying, 'Well I've been reporting this for two years. We weren't in existence two years ago. We didn't have all those officers. Those phone calls are slowing down.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17911]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.   - Frances R. Havergal, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.   - Frances R. Havergal,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Baxter, Priest, Hymnographer, Teacher, 1691  Each of us individually has risen into moral life from a mode of being which was purely natural; in other words, each of us also has fallen -- fallen, presumably in ways determined by his natural constitution, yet certainly, as conscience assures us, in ways for which we are morally answerable, and to which, in the moral constitution of the world, consequences attach which we must recognise as our due. They are not only results of our action, but results which that action has merited; and there is no moral hope for us unless we accept them as such.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I die hard but am not afraid to go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60274]]></link><description><![CDATA[I die hard but am not afraid to go.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword ofself-knowledge. Observe your discipline. Arise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sever the ignorant doubt in your heart with the sword ofself-knowledge. Observe your discipline. Arise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60286]]></link><description><![CDATA[I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17277]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46334]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60055]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65949]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not sure if other arrangements to buy zinc have already been made at this point. Generally, we buy products ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38690]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not sure if other arrangements to buy zinc have already been made at this point. Generally, we buy products on contract for a length of time. The link of the contract is something that is based on the volatility of a particular product, and the price of zinc has been going up.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26336]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40190]]></link><description><![CDATA[The side played sensationally. Wherever that leaves us in the table, we can be happy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26828]]></link><description><![CDATA[Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65723]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53432]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ideal relaxation is working on upholstry. I spend hours in junk shops buying furniture. I do all the upholstery work myself, and it's like therapy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55130]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . there is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15226]]></link><description><![CDATA[All my possessions for a moment of time.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18879]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite repeated warnings from the commission and numerous consumer complaints, the company appears to have made no effort to mend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite repeated warnings from the commission and numerous consumer complaints, the company appears to have made no effort to mend its ways,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2296]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In spending lies the advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49543]]></link><description><![CDATA[In spending lies the advantage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway, Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16584]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neuer thinke you fortune can beare the sway, Where Virtue's force, can cause her to obay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there are many counsellors there is safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there are many counsellors there is safety.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brevity is the soul of wit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24989]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be renewed by intervals of absence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush  Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2977]]></link><description><![CDATA[When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush  Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up,   Opened in airs of June her multiple    OF golden chalices to humming birds     And silken-wing'd insects of the sky.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57617]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Similarities create friendship's while differences hold them together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57522]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62169]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is born to work and prosper and not to rest and rust.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10877]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I but hear her sing, I fare Like one that raises, holds his ear  To some bright star ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56455]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I but hear her sing, I fare Like one that raises, holds his ear  To some bright star in the supremest Round;   Through which, besides the light that's seen    There may be heard, from Heaven within,     The rests of Anthems, that the Angels sound.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wonder why he shot me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24131]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wonder why he shot me?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sharp employ the sharp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22203]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sharp employ the sharp.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22203</guid></item></channel></rss>