<?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[Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62433]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great causes and little men go ill together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great causes and little men go ill together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13275]]></link><description><![CDATA[My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many African leaders refuse to send their troops on peace keeping missions abroad because they probably need their armies to intimidate their own populations.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61766]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36293]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men  Upon whose age we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14031]]></link><description><![CDATA[We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men  Upon whose age we void it up again   With poisonous spite and envy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a strong union background, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35588]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a strong union background,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fast-anchor'd isle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fast-anchor'd isle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From where the sun now stands I will fight no more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43746]]></link><description><![CDATA[From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48143]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66693]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64361]]></link><description><![CDATA['Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3393</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[Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some relate ... that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some relate ... that the eagle tries the eyes of her young by turning them to the sun; which if they cannot look steadily on, she rejects them as spurious. We may truly try our faith by immediate intuitions of the Sun of Righteousness. Direct faith to act itself, immediately and directly on the incarnation of Christ and His mediation; and if it be not the right kind and race, it will turn its eyes aside to anything else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink boys, drink boys, Drive away your sorrow! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink boys, drink boys, Drive away your sorrow!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look for in-line fourth-quarter financial results and more upbeat guidance for 2006 than Amgen provided at this time last ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41858]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look for in-line fourth-quarter financial results and more upbeat guidance for 2006 than Amgen provided at this time last year for 2005.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16685]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their familiescame and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, So. What did you think?.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He did not know if he was allowed to celebrate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40193]]></link><description><![CDATA[He did not know if he was allowed to celebrate.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22945]]></link><description><![CDATA[People change, not necessarily in negative ways. Sometimes goals and intentions in life aren't aligned. It's just choices we make in life. Otherwise, why aren't we with the person we were with in seventh grade?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. -King Henry ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55856]]></link><description><![CDATA[There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66797]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those that God loves, do not live long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those that God loves, do not live long.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the misery of life -- music and cats. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5330]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two means of refuge from the misery of life -- music and cats.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It hasn't been as big of an adjustment as you'd think. Everyone has elevated their play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38312]]></link><description><![CDATA[It hasn't been as big of an adjustment as you'd think. Everyone has elevated their play.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   It is not that we keep His commandments first, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624   It is not that we keep His commandments first, and that then He loves; but that He loves us, and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace, which is revealed to the humble, but hidden from the proud.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the progress that has been made in the last 30 years, many foreign people still speak in foreign languages]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hatred of relatives is the most violent. [Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51678]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hatred of relatives is the most violent. [Lat., Accerima proximorum odia.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58963]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34307]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us begin by doing our best to do our best, every single time, no matter what, forever.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23238]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest. [Lat., Si quid dictum est per jocum,  Non aequum est id te serio praevortier.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56213]]></link><description><![CDATA[A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first blow is as much as two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first blow is as much as two.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People have said that NeXT is 5 to 7 years ahead of the competition... Candidly, we made the same assessment. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35759]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have said that NeXT is 5 to 7 years ahead of the competition... Candidly, we made the same assessment. That's why I made the acquisition.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate. -Chuang Tzu.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47107]]></link><description><![CDATA[Individuality is the aim of political liberty. By leaving the citizen as much freedom of action and of being as comports with order and the rights of others, the institutions render him truly a freeman. He is left to pursue his means of happiness in his own manner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Justin, Martyr at Rome, c.165 Commemoration of Angela de'Merici, Founder of the Institute of St. Ursula, 1540   Visit, I beseech thee, O Lord, this habitation with thy mercy, and me with thy grace and salvation. Let thy holy angels pitch their tents round about and dwell here, that no illusion of the night may abuse me, the spirits of darkness may not come near to hurt me, no evil or sad accident oppress me; and let the eternal Spirit of the Father dwell in my soul and body, filling every corner of my heart with light and grace. Let no deed of darkness overtake me; and let thy blessing, most blessed God, be upon me for ever, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's greatness lies in his power of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53257]]></link><description><![CDATA[You learn to like someone when you find out what makes them laugh, but you can never truly love someone until you find out what makes them cry.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53257</guid></item></channel></rss>