<?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[What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,  A thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13307]]></link><description><![CDATA[What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever,  A thing that answers, but hath not a thought   As lasting but as senseless as a stone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/870]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's true; this stuff can't be made up, folks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40291]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's true; this stuff can't be made up, folks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58349]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition; there are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term art, I should call it "the Reproduction of what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the mist]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to do what we always do. We'll play smart on defense. They're a very athletic team, but everyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41983]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to do what we always do. We'll play smart on defense. They're a very athletic team, but everyone knows Division 3 North runs through Lynn Tech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65996]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24826]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day,  The great, the important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15370]]></link><description><![CDATA[The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day,  The great, the important day, big with the fate   Of Cato, and of Rome.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From the feet, Hercules. [Lat., Ex pede Herculem.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54930]]></link><description><![CDATA[From the feet, Hercules. [Lat., Ex pede Herculem.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the worst of evils, for it prolongs the torment of man]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32309]]></link><description><![CDATA[You look rather rash my dear your colors don't quite match your face.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless our conception of patriotism is progressive, it cannot hope to embody the real affection and the real interest of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47184]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the nature of slavery to render its victims so abject that at last, fearing to be free, they multiply their own chains. You can liberate a freeman, but you cannot liberate a slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27328]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of mercy is not strained; It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blessed- It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20851]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that chastens one, chastens 20. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49328]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that chastens one, chastens 20.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the standing jokes of Congress is that the new Congressman always spends the first week wondering how he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9758]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the standing jokes of Congress is that the new Congressman always spends the first week wondering how he got there and the rest of the time wondering how the other members got there]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22308]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumption. People will be happy to give up most of their culture for the assurance that the tiny bit that comes through is safe and clean. White noise.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20817]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of infinity is a form of myopia that destroys the possibility of seeing the actual infinite, even though it in its highest form has created and sustains us, and in its secondary transfinite forms occurs all around us and even inhabits our minds.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh man. That picture was so beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh man. That picture was so beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquireit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquireit.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18529]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42902]]></link><description><![CDATA[He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With renunciation life begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53289]]></link><description><![CDATA[With renunciation life begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63661]]></link><description><![CDATA[What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37229]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this,  A man to hav bent in prosperite, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57241]]></link><description><![CDATA[For of Fortune's sharpe adversite, The worste kynde of infortune is this,  A man to hav bent in prosperite,   And it remembren whan it passed is.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This world's a bubble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62192]]></link><description><![CDATA[This world's a bubble.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house (in Western Australia) and attacked a lady in the house and later ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29082]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bunch of youngsters entered a Muslim house (in Western Australia) and attacked a lady in the house and later admitted to police that they did that because they are Muslims,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17186]]></link><description><![CDATA[The seed waits for its garden or ground where it will be sown.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16974]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love my kids, but I wouldn't want them for friends.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This report confirms everything we've ever said about why the Byrd Amendment should be overturned, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34656]]></link><description><![CDATA[This report confirms everything we've ever said about why the Byrd Amendment should be overturned,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As abeing of power, intelligence, and love, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As abeing of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts,he holds the key to every situation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fanatic is someone who does what the Lord would do, if He knew the facts of the matter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15258]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fanatic is someone who does what the Lord would do, if He knew the facts of the matter.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We actually started having meetings yesterday morning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35294]]></link><description><![CDATA[We actually started having meetings yesterday morning.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62224]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13467</guid></item></channel></rss>