<?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[Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read my lips. No new taxes! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read my lips. No new taxes!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1613]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21585]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a job without aggravations, you don't have a job.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49174]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man always has two reasons for doing anything--a good reason and the real reason.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53133</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[There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54364]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A-four and a-three and a-two and a-one... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15208]]></link><description><![CDATA[A-four and a-three and a-two and a-one...]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65275]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The devil's most devilish when respectable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12179]]></link><description><![CDATA[The devil's most devilish when respectable.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The outlook continues to look good, especially growth in emerging markets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31963]]></link><description><![CDATA[The outlook continues to look good, especially growth in emerging markets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20140]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was evening here, But upon earth the very noon of night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27451]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was evening here, But upon earth the very noon of night.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Whilst you are divided betwixt God and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles de Foucauld, Hermit, Servant of the Poor, 1916   Whilst you are divided betwixt God and the world, you have neither the pleasures of Religion, nor the pleasures of the world, but are always in the uneasiness of a divided state of heart. You have only so much Religion as serves to disquiet you, to show you a handwriting on the wall, to interrupt your pleasures, and to appear as a death's-head at all your feasts, but not Religion enough to give you a taste and feeling of its pleasures. You dare not wholly neglect Religion, but then you take no more than is just sufficient to keep you from being a terror to yourself, and you are as loth to be very good as you are fearful to be very bad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29532]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53583]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's cool is he has dreadlocks. That makes piano OK in rock, if the piano player looks cool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32557]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's cool is he has dreadlocks. That makes piano OK in rock, if the piano player looks cool.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46759]]></link><description><![CDATA[It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10127]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hallo! A great deal of steam! the pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washing-day! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that. That was the pudding.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilised taste.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man provokes me with impunity. [Lat., Nemo me impune lacessit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2547]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man provokes me with impunity. [Lat., Nemo me impune lacessit.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2547</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's clear that from a lack of presentation of the government's case on this issue, that they feel that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42212]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's clear that from a lack of presentation of the government's case on this issue, that they feel that he will be tortured. But for political reasons, they don't want to come right out and say that they will go for deferral. They will leave it up to the judge to decide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61078]]></link><description><![CDATA[I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love received is the love that is saved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love received is the love that is saved.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must be sacrificed now and again To provide for the next generation of men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54606]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must be sacrificed now and again To provide for the next generation of men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45254]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46373]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit call it the target.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me, what do they do for us in Bulgaria? Do they fix the prices? Or is there some kind of a free market?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1381]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All leaders strive to turn their followers into children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47596]]></link><description><![CDATA[All leaders strive to turn their followers into children.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62408]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16832]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8756]]></link><description><![CDATA[If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can run one business well, you can run any business well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15987]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15808]]></link><description><![CDATA[If patriotism is, as Dr. Johnson used to remark, the last refuge of the scoundrel, wrapping outdated industry in the mantle of national interest is the last refuge of the economically dispossessed. In economic terms, pleading national interest is the declining cottage industry of those who have been bypassed by the global economy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34078]]></link><description><![CDATA[During my most recent visit two weeks ago, I was struck by the destruction that still remains.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24613]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. No time to stand beneath the boughs And stare as long as sheep or cows. No time to see, when woods we pass, Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass. No time to see, in broad daylight, Streams full of stars, like skies at night. No time to turn at Beauty's glance, And watch her feet, how they can dance. No time to wait till her mouth can Enrich that smile her eyes began. A poor life this if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13422]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beautiful.(in reply to her husband who had asked how she felt moments before her death.). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15236]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beautiful.(in reply to her husband who had asked how she felt moments before her death.).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death,  The younger disease, that must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12494]]></link><description><![CDATA[As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death,  The younger disease, that must subdue at length,   Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,  And tints ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life! The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,  And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48447</guid></item></channel></rss>