<?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[I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61008]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4845]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I look at the Hudson River, I can't help but feel overwhelmed by its beauty and responsible for its ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33179]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I look at the Hudson River, I can't help but feel overwhelmed by its beauty and responsible for its protection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40643]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.   - Theodore Roosevelt,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkrs. The power of the car ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkrs. The power of the car is separate from the way the car is driven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43964]]></link><description><![CDATA[I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful when!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26153]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who tells a lie is not sensible of how great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to maintain that one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And as great seamen, using all their wealth And skills in Neptune's deep invisible paths,  In tall ships richly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43990]]></link><description><![CDATA[And as great seamen, using all their wealth And skills in Neptune's deep invisible paths,  In tall ships richly built and ribbed with brass,   To put a girdle round about the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13923]]></link><description><![CDATA[They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49957]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep down, I'm pretty superficial. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was very surprised to receive the award. As a coach, you're only as good as your players. I've been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40308]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was very surprised to receive the award. As a coach, you're only as good as your players. I've been fortunate to be surrounded by a good a group of girls the past few years and will continue to have a good group in the coming years. All of the credit goes to the girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1869]]></link><description><![CDATA[When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fairy stitching gleams On the sides and in the seams,  And it shows   That Pixies were ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56216]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fairy stitching gleams On the sides and in the seams,  And it shows   That Pixies were the wags    Who tipped these funny tags     And these toes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28040]]></link><description><![CDATA[I said to Heart, 'How goes it?' Heart replied: 'Right as a Ribstone Pippin!'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46695]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality. [Lat., Ludendi etiam est quidam modus retinendus, ut ne nimis omnia profundamus, elatique voluptate in aliquam turpitudinem delabamur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11531]]></link><description><![CDATA[You think him to be your dupe; if he feigns to be so who is the greater dupe, he or you? [Fr., Vous le croyez votre dupe: s'il feint de l'etre, qui est plus dupe, de lui ou de vous?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The [Christian] "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Mellitus, First Bishop of London, 624  The [Christian] "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16693]]></link><description><![CDATA[To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humanitarian missions are little different from any other public enterprise, diplomacy included, which is susceptible of misinterpretation by the public, hence ultimately of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65702]]></link><description><![CDATA[February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural gas prices will be bad as well, we shouldn't expect prices to go back down significantly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural gas prices will be bad as well, we shouldn't expect prices to go back down significantly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/412]]></link><description><![CDATA[Acting is about giving something away, handing yourself over to whatever role you are asked to play. I'm not hiding or escaping or seeking anonymity. I reserve the right not to have a rubber stamp on my forehead saying this is who I am. Because who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26901]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice-for life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Audiences cry in the theater when people make a hard choice-for life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. -Bruce Barton.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your emotions affect every cell in your body. Mind and body, mental and physical, are intertwined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket  Is shot as he walks ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61132]]></link><description><![CDATA[All quiet along the Potomac they say Except now and then a stray picket  Is shot as he walks on his beat, to and fro,   By a rifleman hid in the thicket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called the sum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christianity is a source; no one supply of water and refreshment that comes from it can be called the sum of Christianity. It is a mistake, and may lead to much error, to exhibit any series of maxims, even those of the Sermon on the Mount, as the ultimate sum and formula into which Christianity may be run up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4282]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven  To bleed for man, to teach him how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6138]]></link><description><![CDATA[But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven  To bleed for man, to teach him how to live,   And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53556]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is mainly going to alleviate overcrowding at Double Churches. We're going to let fifth-graders who get assigned from those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37754]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is mainly going to alleviate overcrowding at Double Churches. We're going to let fifth-graders who get assigned from those two schools to North Columbus remain at their schools, if their parents want them to continue there and they apply for a hardship. Students in the other grades can apply for a hardship, but we will look at space available.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The folly of one man is the fortune of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16318]]></link><description><![CDATA[The folly of one man is the fortune of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook, Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2895]]></link><description><![CDATA[His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook, Nor seeks for sauce where Appetite stands cook.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nation, like a person, has a mind--a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43688]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nation, like a person, has a mind--a mind that must be kept informed and alert, that must know itself, that understands the hopes and needs of its neighbors--all the other nations that live within the narrowing circle of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642   It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7458</guid></item></channel></rss>