<?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[And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48057]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25471]]></link><description><![CDATA[So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4632]]></link><description><![CDATA["Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're out of their minds. Who do they think they are? This is totally inappropriate. What they've done highlights the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30299]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're out of their minds. Who do they think they are? This is totally inappropriate. What they've done highlights the fact they're an organization that has absolutely no credibility.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trying to make someone fall in love with you is about as pointless as trying to control who you fall in love with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would have the kernel must crack the shell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50868]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would have the kernel must crack the shell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55237]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if many of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens. -Elizabeth Berg.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/44308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our customers tend to range in age from teenagers to people about 30. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our customers tend to range in age from teenagers to people about 30.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23058]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance. - The Art of Worldy Wisdom, 1647.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51871]]></link><description><![CDATA[Early, bright, transient, chaste, as morning dew She sparkled, was exhal'd, and went to heaven.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62673]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63706]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In few, they hurried us aboard a bark, Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared  A rotten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56194]]></link><description><![CDATA[In few, they hurried us aboard a bark, Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared  A rotten carcass of a butt, not rigged,   Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats    Instinctively have quit it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/1670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not a matter of which is the appropriate definition to be applied, ... but what it (i.e. the action) ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28456]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not a matter of which is the appropriate definition to be applied, ... but what it (i.e. the action) was.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52394]]></link><description><![CDATA[Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power, and is often, in point of fact, useless.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not its top for any blast that blows.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mans discontent is his worst evill. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49058]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mans discontent is his worst evill.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47373]]></link><description><![CDATA[The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has goneinto your mind. You change ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21128]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has goneinto your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are bychanging what goes into your mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass-you don't see it, but somehow it does something.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always. -Willa Cather.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46434]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54923]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63685]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12581]]></link><description><![CDATA[On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality has to be caused, not controlled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality has to be caused, not controlled.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61735]]></link><description><![CDATA[The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57012]]></link><description><![CDATA[God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set the above their betters.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20621]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men think all men mortal, but themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/20621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best time to start thinking about your retirement is before the boss does.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warre is deaths feast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50037]]></link><description><![CDATA[Warre is deaths feast.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17910]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most effect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17142]]></link><description><![CDATA[No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en. In brief, sir, study what you most effect.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not something I must do but something I want to do…. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22307]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not something I must do but something I want to do….]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63365]]></link><description><![CDATA[But what do we know of the heart nearest to our own? What do we know of our own heart?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet gold all is not that doth golden seem.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13043]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38671]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had them lay on the ground until the sheriff's department got there,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23059]]></link><description><![CDATA[We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21059]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It allows us to go out and sweep the city at a much faster pace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31122]]></link><description><![CDATA[It allows us to go out and sweep the city at a much faster pace.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57911]]></link><description><![CDATA[For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38397]]></link><description><![CDATA[By a series of violent shocks, the nations in succession have struggled to shake off the Past, to reverse the action of Time and the verdict of success, and to rescue the world from the reign of the dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that sees the beauty of holiness, or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8460]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that sees the beauty of holiness, or true moral good, sees the greatest and most important thing in the world... Unless this is seen, nothing is seen that is worth seeing: for there is no other true excellence or beauty.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/8460</guid></item></channel></rss>