<?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[We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure.  In Books, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4544]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call some books immortal! Do they live? If so, believe me, Time hath made them pure.  In Books, the veriest wicked rest in peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizenship consists in the service of the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8800]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizenship consists in the service of the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finality is not the language of politics. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Finality is not the language of politics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As good as a play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/416]]></link><description><![CDATA[As good as a play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weren't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink,  Ere my fainting spirit fell,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weren't the last drop in the well, As I gasp'd upon the brink,  Ere my fainting spirit fell,   'Tis to thee that I would drink.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19033]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eating habits are evolving to meet the pace and structure of daily life. Consumers are responding to nutritional needs and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eating habits are evolving to meet the pace and structure of daily life. Consumers are responding to nutritional needs and the demands of daily life by missing meals, changing the times at which they eat and even changing the type of products they eat at each occasion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things out. And she just started to copy what I was doing. Of course, as she got better at it, I would show her the 3-d aspect of shading or how to render perspective and she could just do it. She would just pick it up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very tragic. You never think it could happen to you. It makes you more thankful for what you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very tragic. You never think it could happen to you. It makes you more thankful for what you have and your family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Did somebody dream there is some way that the government doesn't need us?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46256]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the creative individual all experience is seminal- all events are equidistant from new ideas and insights... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52280]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the creative individual all experience is seminal- all events are equidistant from new ideas and insights...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22821]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Apes and the Two Travelers TWO MEN, one who always spoke the truth and the other who toldnothing but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1506]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Apes and the Two Travelers TWO MEN, one who always spoke the truth and the other who toldnothing but lies, were traveling together and by chance came tothe land of Apes. One of the Apes, who had raised himself to beking, commanded them to be seized and brought before him, that hemight know what was said of him among men. He ordered at thesame time that all the Apes be arranged in a long row on hisright hand and on his left, and that a throne be placed for him,as was the custom among men. After these preparations hesignified that the two men should be brought before him, andgreeted them with this salutation: What sort of a king do I seemto you to be, O strangers?' The Lying Traveler replied, You seemto me a most mighty king. And what is your estimate of thoseyou see around me?' These, he made answer, are worthycompanions of yourself, fit at least to be ambassadors andleaders of armies. The Ape and all his court, gratified with thelie, commanded that a handsome present be given to the flatterer. On this the truthful Traveler thought to himself, If so great areward be given for a lie, with what gift may not I be rewarded,if, according to my custom, I tell the truth?' The Ape quicklyturned to him. And pray how do I and these my friends around meseem to you?' Thou art, he said, a most excellent Ape, and allthese thy companions after thy example are excellent Apes too.The King of the Apes, enraged at hearing these truths, gave himover to the teeth and claws of his companions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7261]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ethelburga, Abbess of Barking, 675  Like the eye which sees everything in front of it and never sees itself, faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. While we are looking at God, we do not see ourselves -- blessed riddance. The man who has struggled to purify himself and has had nothing but repeated failures will experience real relief when he stops tinkering with his soul and looks away to the perfect One.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14845]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23659]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paradox with him was only truth standing on its head to attract attention ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paradox with him was only truth standing on its head to attract attention]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods only laugh when people ask them for money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21566]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods only laugh when people ask them for money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy. -- Drillers whom Edwin L. Drake tried to enlist in his project to drill for oil in 1859.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18740]]></link><description><![CDATA[A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joking set aside. [Lat., Omissis jocis.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joking set aside. [Lat., Omissis jocis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment. [Lat., Di faciles, peccasse semel concedite tuto:  Id satis est. Peonam culpa secunda ferat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's difficult to survive on this wicket with the new ball, but after it gets old it's easy to play ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39404]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's difficult to survive on this wicket with the new ball, but after it gets old it's easy to play your shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42924]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riding turns 'I wish' into 'I can'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19833]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riding turns 'I wish' into 'I can'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17051]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor." --infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor." --infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Resolved: never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Resolved: never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66490]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60765]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42740]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most distinguishing feature of winners is their intensity of purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21883]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most distinguishing feature of winners is their intensity of purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12027]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [Lat., Discite quam parvo liceat producere vitam,  Et quantum natura petat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12962]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man is esteemed for gay garments but by fools and women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53212]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every reformation must have its victims. You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53603]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. [Lat., Ex ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs. [Lat., Ex humili magna ad fastigia rerum  Extollit, quoties voluit fortuna jocari.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody remembers Ironton in its heyday in the '40s and '50s, that's when Ironton was booming and we've gone downhill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody remembers Ironton in its heyday in the '40s and '50s, that's when Ironton was booming and we've gone downhill, and we have, we've hit rock bottom, ... But if we all don't stand together, we're not going to stand back up. It's going to take all of us to put it back on track.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43476]]></link><description><![CDATA[After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I haven't touched my brother in almost 18 years.(in reference to cruel prison regulations in Mansfield Ohioprison)http://www.kennyisinnocent.org http://www.petitiononline.com/manci. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/267]]></link><description><![CDATA[I haven't touched my brother in almost 18 years.(in reference to cruel prison regulations in Mansfield Ohioprison)http://www.kennyisinnocent.org http://www.petitiononline.com/manci.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,  And the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Through tattered clothes small vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,  And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;   Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51341</guid></item></channel></rss>