<?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[Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence; it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home is where you feel at home and are treated well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No words are necessary between two loving hearts ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62028]]></link><description><![CDATA[No words are necessary between two loving hearts]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43925]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Victory; a matter of staying power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Victory; a matter of staying power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27721]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63458]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute,  From the centre all round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute,  From the centre all round to the sea,   I am lord of the fowl and the brute.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. [Lat., Felix se nescit amari.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48488]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prosperous man does not know whether he is loved. [Lat., Felix se nescit amari.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39421]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45155]]></link><description><![CDATA[First we kill all the subversives; then, their collaborators; later, those who sympathize with them; afterward, those who remain indifferent; and finally, the undecided.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6184]]></link><description><![CDATA[EPIPHANY  The paradox is that a genuine "love for souls" which allows itself to be diverted by fashionable modes into a mere "winning" of them to this or that mutually exclusive version of the "Truth", very often descends to a use of people for more-or-less irrelevant ends (already an evil), and can then so easily degenerate into a total misuse of people for alleged evangelical "results" with the consequent loss of all respect for people and their souls, and the withering of the original concern and love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66074]]></link><description><![CDATA[A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God himself has no right to be a tyrant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47405]]></link><description><![CDATA[God himself has no right to be a tyrant.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To him that will, waies are not wanting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50008]]></link><description><![CDATA[To him that will, waies are not wanting.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With a written agreement you have a prayer; with averbal agreement you have nothing but air. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22395]]></link><description><![CDATA[With a written agreement you have a prayer; with averbal agreement you have nothing but air.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is looking like we will have a couple other minor systems move through this week, Tuesday and Saturday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32493]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is looking like we will have a couple other minor systems move through this week, Tuesday and Saturday.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22645]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all and even less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money, which is of very uncertain value, and sometimes has no value at all and even less.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Rotary Club will do the work, because business people are busy. But the impact and the value of this will be to the business.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One fine day, Says Mister Mucklewraith to me, says he.  "So! you're a poet in your house," and smiled. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46846]]></link><description><![CDATA[One fine day, Says Mister Mucklewraith to me, says he.  "So! you're a poet in your house," and smiled.   "A Poet? God forbid," I cried; and then    It all came out: how Andrew slyly sent     Verse to the paper; how they printed it      In Poet's Corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In science, as in common life, we frequently see that a novelty in system, or in practice, cannot be duly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44692]]></link><description><![CDATA[In science, as in common life, we frequently see that a novelty in system, or in practice, cannot be duly appreciated till time has sobered the enthusiasm of its advocates.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we teach, we learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24514]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we teach, we learn.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19667]]></link><description><![CDATA[To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitude is the playfield of Satan. - Pale Fire, 1962.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34236]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34236</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And however are Dennises take offence, A double meaning shows double sense;  And if proverbs tell truth,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23232]]></link><description><![CDATA[And however are Dennises take offence, A double meaning shows double sense;  And if proverbs tell truth,   A double tooth    Is wisdom's adopted dwelling.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty is the gift of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "The Arnold Bennett Calendar". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. - "The Arnold Bennett Calendar".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4829]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are encouraging people to come down and support the downtown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34458]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are encouraging people to come down and support the downtown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue may be cheerful without forgetting its dignity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10748]]></link><description><![CDATA["I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the government does not help us, we are ready to take up arms, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36725]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the government does not help us, we are ready to take up arms,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26915]]></link><description><![CDATA[A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,  But yet an union in partition--   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60146]]></link><description><![CDATA[So we grew together, Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,  But yet an union in partition--   Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;    So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;     Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,      Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17402]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her Love, And thus the Soldier arm'd with Resolution  Told his soft Tale, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62015]]></link><description><![CDATA[So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her Love, And thus the Soldier arm'd with Resolution  Told his soft Tale, and was a thriving Wooer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they can stay where they are and can have air and water, (then) stay where they are. We're just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40484]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they can stay where they are and can have air and water, (then) stay where they are. We're just at the point where we cannot meet the needs of our citizens right now, particularly water.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This acquisition effectively creates a Yahoo! for Linux and open source developers, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40462]]></link><description><![CDATA[This acquisition effectively creates a Yahoo! for Linux and open source developers,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18856]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I do hate him as I hate the devil.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4693</guid></item></channel></rss>