<?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://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2620]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you are when you are not yourself. Anger is that powerful internal force that blows out the light of reason. Know this to be the enemy: it is anger, born of desire. -Ralph Waldo Emerson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17453]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49802]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best remedy against an ill man is much ground betweene both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sumer is y cumen in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sumer is y cumen in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Molly kept house for him when she was older. But when she was younger, she was quite a rakish young ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41232]]></link><description><![CDATA[Molly kept house for him when she was older. But when she was younger, she was quite a rakish young woman. She had an affair with a married man in the 1890s that was the talk of Cincinnati.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from over work, but many who died from doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings,  Nor as she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings,  Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around,   Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47218]]></link><description><![CDATA[I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing. - The Friends of Voltaire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There will be a concern if we see an increase in businesses selling PCs without Windows and piracy goes into ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42598]]></link><description><![CDATA[There will be a concern if we see an increase in businesses selling PCs without Windows and piracy goes into the sky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8726]]></link><description><![CDATA[The changeful change of circumstances. [Lat., Varia sors rerum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5429]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The main reason is to demonstrate to students the importance and seriousness of the test. We hope by applying it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The main reason is to demonstrate to students the importance and seriousness of the test. We hope by applying it to graduation (that) students see that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(Game two was) a little sloppier on both sides. The temperature goes down, kids get tired, that's high school baseball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34548]]></link><description><![CDATA[(Game two was) a little sloppier on both sides. The temperature goes down, kids get tired, that's high school baseball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guess if you can, choose if you dare. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guess if you can, choose if you dare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We selected a more cultural curriculum. These classes do not count in Thailand, and she will still be in 11th ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30493]]></link><description><![CDATA[We selected a more cultural curriculum. These classes do not count in Thailand, and she will still be in 11th grade next year when she goes back home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. -Helen Keller.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While Washington hath left His awful memory,  A light for after times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61254]]></link><description><![CDATA[While Washington hath left His awful memory,  A light for after times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No brain is stronger than its weakest think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59216]]></link><description><![CDATA[No brain is stronger than its weakest think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Build me a shrine, and I could kneel To rural Gods, or prostrate fall;  Did I not see, did ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Build me a shrine, and I could kneel To rural Gods, or prostrate fall;  Did I not see, did I not feel.   That One Great Spirit governs all.    O Heaven, permit that I may lie     Where o'er my corse green branches wave;      And those who from life's tumults fly       With kindred feelings press my grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[School and education should not be confused; it is only school that can be made easy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54775]]></link><description><![CDATA[School and education should not be confused; it is only school that can be made easy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65663]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgotten is forgiven. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgotten is forgiven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laurel crowned Horatius True, how true the saying,  Swift as wind flies over us   Time devouring, slaying. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laurel crowned Horatius True, how true the saying,  Swift as wind flies over us   Time devouring, slaying.    [Lat., Lauriger Horatius     Quam dixisti verum;      Fugit curo citius       Tempus edax rerum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OUR SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS  Often, though not always, they work in inadequate buildings, with limited budgets, with insufficient backing from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6541]]></link><description><![CDATA[OUR SUNDAY-SCHOOL TEACHERS  Often, though not always, they work in inadequate buildings, with limited budgets, with insufficient backing from church officers, with indifferent support from parents, and at times even under a minister who cares for none of these things. Usually the workers themselves have had insufficient training for the job they are asked to perform. And always they work in a secularized culture, in the midst of spiritual illiteracy, where the most commonplace terms in the Bible and the most elemental ideas concerning the Kingdom of God sound strange even to otherwise well-educated adults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single rose can be my garden . . . a single friend, my world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17182]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single rose can be my garden . . . a single friend, my world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we've made a lot of really great progress moving things along. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29279]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we've made a lot of really great progress moving things along.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12077]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fruit of silence is tranquillity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fruit of silence is tranquillity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day already walks to-morrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48915]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often do the spirits Of great events stride on before the events,  And in to-day already walks to-morrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every country has the government it deserves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every country has the government it deserves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would suspect that, come next spring, we'll put the final touches on it, clean it up and be ready ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would suspect that, come next spring, we'll put the final touches on it, clean it up and be ready to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to use the example that building a car is hard, but building the first car is quite hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38300]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to use the example that building a car is hard, but building the first car is quite hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53574]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be a caddy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35605]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be a caddy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never heard a passion so confused, So strange, outrageous, and so variable  As the dog Jew did utter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6173]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never heard a passion so confused, So strange, outrageous, and so variable  As the dog Jew did utter in the streets:   'My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!    Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Allow me to offer my congratulations on the truly admirable skill you have shown in keeping clear of the mark. Not to have hit once in so many trials, argues the most splendid talents for missing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The 7th Congressional District will be one of the most competitive in the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39628]]></link><description><![CDATA[The 7th Congressional District will be one of the most competitive in the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No season now for calm, familiar talk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58613]]></link><description><![CDATA[No season now for calm, familiar talk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is always more harmful than the insult that caused it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is always more harmful than the insult that caused it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54809]]></link><description><![CDATA[O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In my finest moment, when all of my fantastic dreams have come true...I will be utterly and completely alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59064]]></link><description><![CDATA[In my finest moment, when all of my fantastic dreams have come true...I will be utterly and completely alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always accept good fortune with grace and humility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always accept good fortune with grace and humility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11200]]></link><description><![CDATA[All say, 'How hard it is that we have to die' - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oaks with solemnity shook their heads; The twigs of the birch-trees, in token  Of warning, nodded,--and I exclaim'd: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44717]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oaks with solemnity shook their heads; The twigs of the birch-trees, in token  Of warning, nodded,--and I exclaim'd:   "Dear Monarch, forgive what I've spoken!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44717</guid></item></channel></rss>