<?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[Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52994]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45015]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fellow can't keep people from having a bad opinion of him, but he can keep them from being right about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53961]]></link><description><![CDATA[In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2446]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The passions are the only orators that always persuade: they are, as it were, a natural art, the rules of which are infallible; and the simplest man with passion is more persuasive than the most eloquent without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To work is to pray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62176]]></link><description><![CDATA[To work is to pray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn avidly. Question repeatedly what you have learned. Analyze it carefully. Then put what you have learned into practice intelligently.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55440]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them for. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should perish by his own craft. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50783]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no law more just, than that he, who plots death, should perish by his own craft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43937]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath the grace of God, hath wealth enough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51405]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath the grace of God, hath wealth enough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soul of fibre and heart of oak. [Sp., Alma de esparto y corazon de encina.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soul of fibre and heart of oak. [Sp., Alma de esparto y corazon de encina.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we can reach unity between all the components of the people, the canals of terrorism will dry up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37413]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we can reach unity between all the components of the people, the canals of terrorism will dry up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're not a great free throw shooting team but the fact that we could make that many free throws here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35486]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're not a great free throw shooting team but the fact that we could make that many free throws here when we had to make them, I think that's a great sign for our guys.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3602]]></link><description><![CDATA[The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, isas one who plows but does not sow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, isas one who plows but does not sow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57278]]></link><description><![CDATA[And he that makes his soul his surety, I think, does give the best security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesus once declared that God is "good to the ungrateful and the wicked" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remember preaching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesus once declared that God is "good to the ungrateful and the wicked" (St. Luke 6:35), and I remember preaching a sermon on this text to a horrified and even astonished congregation who simply refused to believe (so I gathered afterwards) in this astounding liberality of God. That God should be in a state of constant fury with the wicked seemed to them only right and proper, but that God should be kind towards those who were defying or disobeying His laws seemed to them a monstrous injustice. Yet I was but quoting the Son of God Himself, and I only comment here that the terrifying risks that God takes are part of His Nature. We do not need to explain or modify His unremitting love towards mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her,  In vain would fond ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23565]]></link><description><![CDATA[June falls asleep upon her bier of flowers; In vain are dewdrops sprinkled o'er her,  In vain would fond winds fan her back to life,   Her hours are numbered on the floral dial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want to put the kids at ease and focus on the things that they're going to need to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32201]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want to put the kids at ease and focus on the things that they're going to need to get past the falling-down part. Instead of telling them, 'Oh, well, this first day or two is going to be brutal,' the focus is on the things that will really help them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who would doe ill ne're wants occasion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13090]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23408]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What care if the day Be turned to gray,  What care if the night come soon!   We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21000]]></link><description><![CDATA[What care if the day Be turned to gray,  What care if the night come soon!   We may choose the pace    Who bow for grace,     At the Inn of the Silver Moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss?  How tasteless then whatever ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss?  How tasteless then whatever can be given!   Health is the vital principle of bliss,    And exercise of health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life without music would be a mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life without music would be a mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to "hunger and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52085]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthy appetite for righteousness, kept in due control by good manners, is an excellent thing; but to "hunger and thirst" after it is often merely a symptom of spiritual diabetes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25589]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47331]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is hateful to thyself do not do to another. That is the whole Law, the rest is Commentary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jest not with the two-edged sword of God's word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25314]]></link><description><![CDATA[The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26000]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize how lucky you truly are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20783]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19898]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/978]]></link><description><![CDATA[One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of students that have a blackout for the first time learn from it and stop drinking so much. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31726]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of students that have a blackout for the first time learn from it and stop drinking so much. It is a scary thing to have happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any person who recognizes this greatest power... the power to choose. Begins to realize that he is the one that is doing the choosing and that friends, although they mean well, cannot do his choosing for him, nor can his relatives. Consequently, he develops real self-confidence based upon his own ability, upon his own action, and upon his own initiative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29756]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's no failure. He's not dead yet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44241]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's no failure. He's not dead yet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all things it is better to hope than to despair ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11993]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all things it is better to hope than to despair]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair?  Can guilt like man's be e'er ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48050]]></link><description><![CDATA[Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair?  Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven?   Can vice atone for crimes by prayer?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48050</guid></item></channel></rss>