<?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[Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty and order will never be perfectly safe, until a trespass on the constitutional provisions for either, shall be felt with the same keenness that resents an invasion of the dearest rights.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52993]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way I feel now, I'm 45 years old and I have a new life. I feel reborn. I'm alive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38056]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way I feel now, I'm 45 years old and I have a new life. I feel reborn. I'm alive again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom...refer[s] to a social relationship among people- namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom...refer[s] to a social relationship among people- namely, the absence of force as a prospective instrument of decision making. Freedom is reduced whenever a decision is made under threat of force, whether or not force actually materializes or is evident in retrospect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The web of life is of mingled yarn, good and ill together.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1074]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The key is not the "will to win" . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3793]]></link><description><![CDATA[The key is not the "will to win" . . . everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clouds that thunder do not always rain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clouds that thunder do not always rain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance is stubborn and prejudice is hard.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more we fear crosses, the more reason we have to think that we stand in need of them: let ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more we fear crosses, the more reason we have to think that we stand in need of them: let us not be discouraged when the hand of God layeth heavy ones upon us. We ought to judge of the violence of our disease by the violence of the remedies which our spiritual physician prescribes for us. It is a great argument of our wretchedness and of God's mercy, that, notwithstanding the difficulty of our recovery, He vouchsafes to undertake our cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17424]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Tuesday last A falcon, now tow'ring in her pride of place,  Was by a mousing owl hawked at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15057]]></link><description><![CDATA[On Tuesday last A falcon, now tow'ring in her pride of place,  Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18991]]></link><description><![CDATA[Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15793]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not hear the term "compassionate" applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of "compassion".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10431]]></link><description><![CDATA[The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally, the situation is getting worse and pressure is piling on the weakened people and livestock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally, the situation is getting worse and pressure is piling on the weakened people and livestock.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52234]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3047]]></link><description><![CDATA[The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, atthe huge waves of the seas, at the long course ofrivers, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21845]]></link><description><![CDATA[People travel and wonder at the heights of mountains, atthe huge waves of the seas, at the long course ofrivers, at the vast compass of the oceans, at the circular motion of thestars, and they pass themselves without even wondering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58610]]></link><description><![CDATA[My tongue within my lips I rein: For who talks much must talk in vain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Street Sweep . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34745]]></link><description><![CDATA[Street Sweep .]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/34745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wild oats make a bad autumn crop. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/60517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truthAll death will he annul, all tears assuage?Or fill these void veins full ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall Life renew these bodies? Of a truthAll death will he annul, all tears assuage?Or fill these void veins full again with youthAnd wash with an immortal water age?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes questions are more important than answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes questions are more important than answers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9092]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in communism any more than you do but there is nothing wrong with the Communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have got are Communists.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14771]]></link><description><![CDATA[My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- it gives a lovely light!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Today the world is the victim of propaganda because people are not intellectually competent. More than anything the United States needs effective citizens competent to do their own thinking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61026]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21040]]></link><description><![CDATA[As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will make a Star-chamber matter of it. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58902]]></link><description><![CDATA[But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will draw the curtain and show you the picture. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55739]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will draw the curtain and show you the picture. -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[North American manufacturers have really focused on product, launching a wide variety of new and exciting model offerings, ... In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30631]]></link><description><![CDATA[North American manufacturers have really focused on product, launching a wide variety of new and exciting model offerings, ... In the end the consumer wins, in terms of choice, product quality and affordability.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17300]]></link><description><![CDATA[As diamond cuts diamond, and one hone smooths a second, all the parts of intellect are whetstones to each other; and genius, which is but the result of their mutual sharpening, is character too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beginnings of all things are small. [Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3948]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beginnings of all things are small. [Lat., Omnium rerum principia parva sunt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, andevermore he takes the Tool of Thought, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mind is the Master-power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, andevermore he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, bringsforth a thousand joys, a thousand ills-He thinks in secret and it comes topass; Environment is but his looking-glass. As A Man Thinketh.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5283]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. -Spanish proverb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. -Spanish proverb.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49387]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that praiseth himselfe spattereth himselfe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3235]]></link><description><![CDATA[To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very often the quiet fellow has said all he knows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3952]]></link><description><![CDATA[It began of nothing and in nothing it ends. [Lat., Et redit in nihilum quod fuit ante nihil.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/3952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-Shop appears, As the red waves of wretchedness swell,  How it burns on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-Shop appears, As the red waves of wretchedness swell,  How it burns on the edge of tempestuous years   The horrible Light-House of Hell!]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19433]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not the literal past, the "facts" of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19433</guid></item></channel></rss>