<?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[If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17715]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fawn and His MotherA young fawn once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1527]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fawn and His MotherA young fawn once said to his Mother, You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have your horns as a defense; why, then, O Mother! do the hounds frighten you so? She smiled, and said: I know full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you mention, but when I hear even the bark of a single dog I feel ready to faint, and fly away as fast as I can. No arguments will give courage to the coward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65470]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22286]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants -- more than anything else -- to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it'll seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they'll understand how important other things are -- and have always been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61460]]></link><description><![CDATA[The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58030]]></link><description><![CDATA[I studied the lives of great men and famous women; and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm and hard work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather clean than beg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29762]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather clean than beg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thinking is heavily endorsed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thinking is heavily endorsed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65358]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16054]]></link><description><![CDATA[And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11828]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When to secure your bald pate from the weather, You lately wore a cape of black neats' leather;  He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14076]]></link><description><![CDATA[When to secure your bald pate from the weather, You lately wore a cape of black neats' leather;  He was a very wag, who to you said,   "Why do you wear your slippers on your head?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65967]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mmm... Organized Crime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mmm... Organized Crime]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the largest ever TV audience; the busiest Web site in the world; the largest ever online petition -- The Live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40849]]></link><description><![CDATA[the largest ever TV audience; the busiest Web site in the world; the largest ever online petition -- The Live 8 list; the largest ever text petition; the largest ever response to a TV show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She rears her young on yonder tree; She leaves her faithful mate to mind 'em;  Like us, for fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18899]]></link><description><![CDATA[She rears her young on yonder tree; She leaves her faithful mate to mind 'em;  Like us, for fish she sails to sea,   And, plunging, shows us where to find 'em.    Yo, ho, my hearts! let's seek the deep,     Ply every oar, and cheerly with her,      While slow the bending net we sweep,       God bless the fish-hawk and the fisher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Sidney Godophin," said Charles (II), "is never in the way and never out of the way." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55219]]></link><description><![CDATA["Sidney Godophin," said Charles (II), "is never in the way and never out of the way."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every egg represents 32 hours of jail for a chickenkept in a 3 ft by 1 ft cage, debeaked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every egg represents 32 hours of jail for a chickenkept in a 3 ft by 1 ft cage, debeaked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Thirsty PigeonA pigeon, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard. Not supposing it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1539]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Thirsty PigeonA pigeon, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted on a signboard. Not supposing it to be only a picture, she flew towards it with a loud whir and unwittingly dashed against the signboard, jarring herself terribly. Having broken her wings by the blow, she fell to the ground, and was caught by one of the bystanders. Zeal should not outrun discretion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary   If you were to rise early every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary   If you were to rise early every morning, as an instance of self-denial, as a method of renouncing indulgence, as a means of redeeming your time and of fitting your spirit for prayer, you would find mighty advantages from it. This method, though it seem such a small circumstance of life, would in all probability be a means [toward] great piety. It would keep it constantly in your head that softness and idleness were to be avoided and that self-denial was a part of Christianity... It would teach you to exercise power over yourself, and make you able by degrees to renounce other pleasures and tempers that war against the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamity is virtue's opportunity. [Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamity is virtue's opportunity. [Lat., Calamitas virtutis occasio est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17207]]></link><description><![CDATA[As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5221]]></link><description><![CDATA[The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22788]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16696]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, When we lock up our lives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61378]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, When we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53424]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26511]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this frog and mouse battle among the mathematicians?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2079]]></link><description><![CDATA[I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65787]]></link><description><![CDATA[But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Etiquette tip: More people will get out of your way if you say "I'm gonna puke!" than if you say ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14235]]></link><description><![CDATA[Etiquette tip: More people will get out of your way if you say "I'm gonna puke!" than if you say "Excuse me".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25481]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19483]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowder, and printing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation's policy form an integral whole. Foreign policy and domestic policy are closely linked together; they are but one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47283]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation's policy form an integral whole. Foreign policy and domestic policy are closely linked together; they are but one system; they condition each other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laurence J. Peter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object. -Laurence J. Peter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2101]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59807]]></link><description><![CDATA[At times truth may not seem probable. [Fr., Le vrai peut quelquefois n'etre pas vraisemblable.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm sure Norwood is doing the thing they think they need to do from a financial standpoint to keep their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42109]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm sure Norwood is doing the thing they think they need to do from a financial standpoint to keep their company healthy. But from a human nature standpoint, it's a tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloomy as night he stands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gloomy as night he stands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For my part getting up seems not so easy By half as lying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26129]]></link><description><![CDATA[For my part getting up seems not so easy By half as lying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15666]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46961]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13654]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44327]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   I shall think it mercy to my soul, if my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6762]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304   I shall think it mercy to my soul, if my faith shall out-watch all this winter-night, and not nod or slumber, till my Lord's summer-day dawn upon me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6762</guid></item></channel></rss>