<?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[Heresy is another word for freedom of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49460]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33661]]></link><description><![CDATA[After months of lies, the president has given millions of people around the world reason to doubt that he has sent Americans into battle for the right reasons, ... The fact that Americans are expressing these doubts shows that the president is losing his ability to lead. If the president refuses to resign for the sake of the nation, I believe he should be impeached and face Senate trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feelings are everywhere -- be gentle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17857]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. [Lat., Fundamenta ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23651]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted. [Lat., Fundamenta justitiae sunt, ut ne cui noceatur, deinde ut communi utilitati serviatur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18118]]></link><description><![CDATA[In New York -- whose subway trains in particular have been "tattooed" with an energy to put our own rude practitioners to shame -- not an inch of free space is spared except that of advertisements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accurate information is a key part of motivation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accurate information is a key part of motivation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47401]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should...be able to see that our interest would be best served not by asking the state to promulgate our values but by forbidding the state to promulgate any values at all. If the state can espouse some value that we love, it can, with equal justice, espouse others we do not love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They shall not pass till the stars be darkened: Two swords crossed in front of the Hun;  Never a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61130]]></link><description><![CDATA[They shall not pass till the stars be darkened: Two swords crossed in front of the Hun;  Never a groan but God has harkened,   Counting their cruelties one by one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. - The Passionate State of the Mind, 1954. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2865]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything. - The Passionate State of the Mind, 1954.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't have a favorite place to play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39910]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't have a favorite place to play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17057]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore  Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore  Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer   Curves his white bastions with projected roof    Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.     Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work      So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he       For number or proportion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be!  He would dress me up ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maud Muller looked and sighed: :Ah me! That I the Judge's bride might be!  He would dress me up in silks so fine,   And praise and toast me at his wine."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia- that is, nowhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10191]]></link><description><![CDATA[. . . thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse  The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20107]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who laughs last has not yet heard the bad news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits the all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits the all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but men only.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  It is not in the gifts He received but in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  It is not in the gifts He received but in the virtues He practiced that Christ is our model. That which is asked of you, so that you may resemble Him, is to make the same use as He did of the gifts of God, according to the measure in which you have received them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I plan on being a sponge all year and see how quickly we can adapt. I can't imagine doing this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41459]]></link><description><![CDATA[I plan on being a sponge all year and see how quickly we can adapt. I can't imagine doing this from Nazareth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17990]]></link><description><![CDATA[Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It just broke their backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36077]]></link><description><![CDATA[It just broke their backs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51916]]></link><description><![CDATA[If heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17819]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December, how  In this our pinching cave shall we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11570]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December, how  In this our pinching cave shall we discourse   The freezing hours away?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If anything prepares you to be president, it's being a Red Sox fan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4786]]></link><description><![CDATA[If anything prepares you to be president, it's being a Red Sox fan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God comes to the hungry in the form of food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21098]]></link><description><![CDATA[God comes to the hungry in the form of food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44609]]></link><description><![CDATA[To vanish nonsense with the charms of sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63100]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. -Elie Weisel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're in a different ball game now. We're going to be shedding a lot of the low-education manufacturing jobs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38866]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're in a different ball game now. We're going to be shedding a lot of the low-education manufacturing jobs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh  That filters through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43436]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rustle of the leaves in summer's hush When wandering breezes touch them, and the sigh  That filters through the forest, or the gush   That swells and sinks amid the branches high,--    'Tis all the music of the wind, and we     Let fancy float on the aeolian breath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45812]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where's the coward that would not dare To fight for such a land?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  Let men in whose hearts are the ways of God seriously consider the use that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  Let men in whose hearts are the ways of God seriously consider the use that hath been made, under the blessing of God, of the conscientious observation of the Lord's day, in the past and present ages, unto the promotion of holiness, righteousness, and religion universally, in the power of it; and if they are not under invincible prejudices, it will be very difficult for them to judge that it is a plant which our heavenly Father hath not planted. For my part, I must not only say, but plead whilst I live in this world, and leave this testimony to the present and future ages, if these papers see the light and do survive, that if I have ever seen any thing in the ways and worship of God wherein the power of religion or godliness hath been expressed, any thing that hath represented the holiness of the gospel and the Author of it, any thing that hath looked like a preludium unto the everlasting Sabbath and rest with God, which we aim through grace to come unto, it hath been there and with them where and amongst whom the Lord's day hath been had in highest esteem, and a strict observation of it attended unto, as an ordinance of our Lord Jesus Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2512]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time only flies when you're having fun and dying, it's flying right now and I'm definitely not the former. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time only flies when you're having fun and dying, it's flying right now and I'm definitely not the former.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They are so savvy. They roll out the red carpet. They can really talk about the quality of the area. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40811]]></link><description><![CDATA[They are so savvy. They roll out the red carpet. They can really talk about the quality of the area.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62390]]></link><description><![CDATA[You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above;  Ask of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25617]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above;  Ask of the great sum what is light;   Ask what is darkness of the night;    Ask sin of what may be forgiven;     Ask what is happiness of heaven;      Ask what is folly of the crowd;       Ask what is fashion of the shroud;        Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;         Ask of thyself what beauty is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66430]]></link><description><![CDATA[The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50352]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountains are in labour, the birth will be an absurd little mouse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is horrible. Because you have to get here two hours early just to find a place to park. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42368]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is horrible. Because you have to get here two hours early just to find a place to park.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whip me such honest knaves! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whip me such honest knaves!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our acre, trees, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6800]]></link><description><![CDATA[With what presumption have we dared to voice "Thank You for home (although we hold the deed), Our acre, trees, and flowers (ours by choice), Our faithful dog and cat (though it's agreed No one can own the latter), each good book (A gift, or purchased), all else we foresaw That we should cherish, and have made to look Ours by possession (nine points of the law)." With what presumption have we called them ours, And even felt unselfish when we shared them--  When, if the truth be known, they have been Yours From the beginning, Lord! You have prepared them For us to borrow, using as our own: So thank You, Father, for this generous loan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6800</guid></item></channel></rss>