<?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[How many time do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are  In a silver chain  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25622]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many time do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are  In a silver chain   Of evening rain    Unravelled from the trembling main     And threading the eye of a yellow star:--      So many time do I love again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our general projects building has been overflowing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our general projects building has been overflowing.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46273]]></link><description><![CDATA[The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. - Essays and Aphorisms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64650]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.rnRead more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/a/abraham_lincoln_2.html#0P2cCWMdWjEvdFdb.99rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound;  It speaks itself, and what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The welcome news is in the letter found; The carrier's not commission'd to expound;  It speaks itself, and what it does contain,   In all things needful to be known is plain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'ld charm her with the magic of a switch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48695]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'ld charm her with the magic of a switch.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of trees I (Krishna) am the fig.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977   Where would you be if God took away all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977   Where would you be if God took away all your Christian work? Too often it is our Christian work that is worshiped and not God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cock has great influence on this own dunghill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10051]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cock has great influence on this own dunghill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's grow marijuana instead of cows in WestCanada.(re a 30 million dollar bust in an abandonedOntario brewery). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/577]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's grow marijuana instead of cows in WestCanada.(re a 30 million dollar bust in an abandonedOntario brewery).]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without civic morality communities perish; without personal morality their survival has no value.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20878]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which information is collected and used]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5629]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The good man is the friend of all living things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25422]]></link><description><![CDATA[The good man is the friend of all living things.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither "property" nor the value of property is a physical thing. Property is a set of defined options...It is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither "property" nor the value of property is a physical thing. Property is a set of defined options...It is that set of options which has economic value...It is the options, and not the physical things, which are the "property" - economically as well as legally...But because the public tends to think of property as tangible, physical things, this opens the way politically for government confiscation of property by forcibly taking away options while leaving the physical objects untouched.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62414]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22644]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs are fine in the field. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49203]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs are fine in the field.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time flies like an arrow.Fruit flies like a banana. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time flies like an arrow.Fruit flies like a banana.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet,  And golden locks in breezy play,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26608]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet,  And golden locks in breezy play,   Half teasing and half tender, to repeat    Her song of "May."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44864]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42272]]></link><description><![CDATA[He actually came up to me and we started speaking. And from that conversation we were able to come to a meeting of the minds and it seemed as if it was clear to me that he wanted to do similar things to what I wanted to do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It feels pretty good. As a kid, I never thought this would happen to me to tell you the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39371]]></link><description><![CDATA[It feels pretty good. As a kid, I never thought this would happen to me to tell you the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by common hatred of it's neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44380]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation is a society united by a delusion about it's ancestry and by common hatred of it's neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of ourcontrols. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of ourcontrols.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The idea that any one of our religions represents the infallible word of the One True God requires an encyclopedic ignorance of history, mythology, and art even to be entertained.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18334]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me moderate our sorrows. The grief of a man should not exceed proper bounds, but be in proportion to the blow he has received. [Lat., Ponamus nimios gemitus: flagrantior aequo  Non debet dolor esse viri, nec vulnere major.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet still a sad, good Christian at the heart.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32355]]></link><description><![CDATA[I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18908]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard cases make bad law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard cases make bad law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44325]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never deprive someone of hope; it may be all they have.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karma is the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a toothfor a tooth. I reject that. I believe in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Karma is the philosophy of an eye for an eye, a toothfor a tooth. I reject that. I believe in the love andmercy of God.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47632]]></link><description><![CDATA[A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Labor is the fruit of civilization, not the basis of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56952]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty;  Follow the straight line, thou shalt see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty;  Follow the straight line, thou shalt see   The curved line ever follow thee.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28878]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53746]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill your house with gold and jade, and it can no longer be guarded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let still the woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let still the woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart: For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, Than women's are. -Twelfth Night. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55749</guid></item></channel></rss>