<?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[Trouble rides behind and gallops with him. [Fr., Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trouble rides behind and gallops with him. [Fr., Le chagrin monte en croupe et galope avec lui.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7858]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a man's religion is his attitude to his fellow men. The only possible proof that a man loves God is the demonstrated fact that he loves his fellow men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of man is a winter way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49885]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of man is a winter way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14230]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think if they are going to borrow money, it should be for something substantial. What I think they should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39522]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think if they are going to borrow money, it should be for something substantial. What I think they should do is leave the existing facility in place and start (building) a new school on the property. They are throwing money away. They are putting Band-Aids on the problem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will no longer tolerate from this day the security anarchy, the armed chaos and the kidnappings, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41316]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will no longer tolerate from this day the security anarchy, the armed chaos and the kidnappings,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16294]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By all means, slow down. The roads are either wet, snow- covered or slushy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31865]]></link><description><![CDATA[By all means, slow down. The roads are either wet, snow- covered or slushy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum  Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum  Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History: A distillation of rumor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19348]]></link><description><![CDATA[History: A distillation of rumor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing to make it too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55912]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was alway yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing to make it too common. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good is the mora that makes all sure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good is the mora that makes all sure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12883]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which the dream shows is the shadow of such wisdom as exists in man, even if during his waking state he may know nothing about it... We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's life is a history of the affections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1644]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's life is a history of the affections.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46524]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really hasn't settled in yet that it's almost over. It seems like yesterday that we just got here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37109]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really hasn't settled in yet that it's almost over. It seems like yesterday that we just got here.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19542]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12735]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21830]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62195]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day;  Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,   And make use of your wings while you may.    . . . .     But tho' dreams of delight may have dazzled you quite,      They at last found it dangerous play;       Many things in this world that look bright, pretty moth,        Only dazzle to lead us astray.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. [Lat., Malum est necessitati ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44062]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. [Lat., Malum est necessitati vivere; sed in necessitate vivere necessitas nulla est.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one teaches, two learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63888]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one teaches, two learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24737]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He conquers who endures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22132]]></link><description><![CDATA[He conquers who endures.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though I never did an evil deed, yet, if I have the will to do evil, I have the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though I never did an evil deed, yet, if I have the will to do evil, I have the sin as if I had done the deed; and I could, by a total will, do as great a sin as if I had killed the whole world, though I never actually did anything. Why, would the same not be possible to a good will? Yes, indeed, and even much more so. Surely, I can do all things with the will. I can bear the sorrow of all men and feed all the poor and do the work of all men and whatever else you may think of. If it be not the will that fails you, but only the power, then truly, before God, you have done it all, and no man can take it from you or even hinder you for a moment; for to will to do as soon as I can is the same before God as having done it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49801]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best of the sport is to doe the deede, and say nothing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules of conduct which govern men in their relations to one another are being applied in an ever-increasing degree to nations. The battlefield as a place of settlement of disputes is gradually yielding to arbitral courts of justice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16928]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People know each other better on a journey. Plaatje ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28498]]></link><description><![CDATA[People know each other better on a journey. Plaatje]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65429]]></link><description><![CDATA[To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people drop out along the way and you need others to stay for a support group, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people drop out along the way and you need others to stay for a support group,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47155]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/148]]></link><description><![CDATA[For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present with the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's armed without that's innocent within. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20958]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's armed without that's innocent within.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Akaka and others in the delegation downplayed the Justice Department's statement yesterday.] Every practical policy issue raised by DOJ in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32563]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Akaka and others in the delegation downplayed the Justice Department's statement yesterday.] Every practical policy issue raised by DOJ in our negotiations has been addressed and resolved, ... Although I realize and respect that there are those who have differing views, the bill is constitutional.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63785]]></link><description><![CDATA[A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47316]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54245]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56355]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest. -Thomas More.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contemplation makes a rare turkey cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contemplation makes a rare turkey cock of him. How he jets under his advanced plumes!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47138]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That would be roughly equivalent to the number of doses that are used in a typical flu season. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32280]]></link><description><![CDATA[That would be roughly equivalent to the number of doses that are used in a typical flu season.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52307</guid></item></channel></rss>