<?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[Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Sye," he seyd, "be the same hatte I can knowe yf my wyfe be badde  To me by eny ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18881]]></link><description><![CDATA["Sye," he seyd, "be the same hatte I can knowe yf my wyfe be badde  To me by eny other man;   If my floures ouver fade or falle,    Then doth my wyfe me wrong wyth alle     As many a woman can."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. [Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. [Lat., Unicumque homo est, ibi beneficio locus est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62786]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38666]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. [Vulgate Lat., Pax huic domui.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45866]]></link><description><![CDATA[And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house. [Vulgate Lat., Pax huic domui.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47490]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not conclusive proof of a doctrine's correctness that its adversaries use the police, the hangman, and violent mobs to fight it. But it is a proof of the fact that those taking recourse to violent oppression are in their subconsciousness convinced of the untenability of their own doctrines.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any woman could act like a lady, and this behavior was interpreted as being submissive, demure, inhibited...Being a lady in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any woman could act like a lady, and this behavior was interpreted as being submissive, demure, inhibited...Being a lady in the Western world was like footbinding in China.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47742]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. You can find positive signs or you can find negative signs. How you evaluate them depends on something that happened in your life recently or something like that. There's no objective way to do it. The important thing is you try to commit yourself to making the positive signs more real. Suppose you felt that there's 99 percent of a probability that human civilization is going to be destroyed in the next hundred years, but one percent chance it won't be, and that one percent offers some opportunities to do something. Well, you commit yourself to that one percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44226]]></link><description><![CDATA[People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may conquer with a sword but you are conquered by a kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23849]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may conquer with a sword but you are conquered by a kiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat that catches the mice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black cat or white cat, it's a good cat that catches the mice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28681]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37093]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt the garrulous archive bequeathed us by the tape recorder will prove as memorable as Henry James's thank-you notes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16981]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best you can beat any given momentis yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34408]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best you can beat any given momentis yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Timothy and Titus, Companions of Paul Commemoration of Dorothy Kerin, Founder of the Burrswood Healing Community, 1963  Social enthusiasms have such power today, they raise people so effectively to the supreme degree of heroism in suffering and death, that I think it is as well that a few sheep should remain outside the fold in order to bear witness that the love of Christ is essentially something different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16428]]></link><description><![CDATA[While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24953]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don't mind some people dying all the time or maybe only starving some of the time which isn't half so bad if it isn't you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bad conscience has a very good memory ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9816]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bad conscience has a very good memory]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2841]]></link><description><![CDATA[They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauteous pansies rise In purple, gold, and blue,  With tints of rainbow hue   Mocking the sunset ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45444]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauteous pansies rise In purple, gold, and blue,  With tints of rainbow hue   Mocking the sunset skies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let anyone persuade you that anything we do in life less than our own best, is a worthy thing. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let anyone persuade you that anything we do in life less than our own best, is a worthy thing. You must never compromise with your life. We know when we are doing first-rate things. When we satisfy ourselves with second-rate things, it is the beginning of a long, long death. We die from that minute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nearly 100% of the ministry's procurement budget that has gone [missing], ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28942]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nearly 100% of the ministry's procurement budget that has gone [missing],]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a huge match for us. Getting league wins early in the season means we're moving in the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42288]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a huge match for us. Getting league wins early in the season means we're moving in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We call first truths those we discover after all the others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65330]]></link><description><![CDATA[We call first truths those we discover after all the others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No book was ever written down by any but itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53878]]></link><description><![CDATA[No book was ever written down by any but itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21761]]></link><description><![CDATA[If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We went very athletic, very casual for a number of years. It's inevitable that we'd move through those cycles and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42568]]></link><description><![CDATA[We went very athletic, very casual for a number of years. It's inevitable that we'd move through those cycles and shift to a different direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh Lord, forgive the misprints! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh Lord, forgive the misprints!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62360]]></link><description><![CDATA[And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43095]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe these are a solid set of figures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31606]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe these are a solid set of figures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9194]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The palpable obscure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44765]]></link><description><![CDATA[The palpable obscure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47925]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47339]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stately and tall he moves in the hall, The chief of a thousand for grace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stately and tall he moves in the hall, The chief of a thousand for grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59274]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they're called memories. Some take us forward, they're called dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59274</guid></item></channel></rss>