<?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[Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system unfair to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system unfair to all. So, beware of single-tax proposals. The U.S. government blows more money than any single tax can generate. The key is to tax multiple bases, disparate in nature, and with simple flat rates. That is a system both fair and sustatinable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath the ivorytowers of Harvardare the catacombsin which a hundredthousand mice are caged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16449]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath the ivorytowers of Harvardare the catacombsin which a hundredthousand mice are caged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24707]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.   - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45231]]></link><description><![CDATA[We fear that the glittering generalities of the speaker have left an impression more delightful than permanent.   - Franklin J. Dickman,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42564]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do whatever you can either to maintain an edge or to get an edge and for men now, it's not like you can just rest on your laurels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62698]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always thought of Christmas as a good time; a kind, forgiving, generous, pleasant time; a time when men and women seem to open their hearts freely, and so I say, God bless Christmas!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10155]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10155</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those who have burned schools and killed doctors, nurses and many other innocent Afghans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40049]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those who have burned schools and killed doctors, nurses and many other innocent Afghans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law of inflation: whatever goes up will go up some more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law of inflation: whatever goes up will go up some more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22429]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul;  That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19956]]></link><description><![CDATA[For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul;  That kindred feelings might our state improve,   And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We climbed on the fire truck and I drove it, but it didn't move because I don't have my license. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29048]]></link><description><![CDATA[We climbed on the fire truck and I drove it, but it didn't move because I don't have my license.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19604]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He needs prayers. That's what it comes down to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29216]]></link><description><![CDATA[He needs prayers. That's what it comes down to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a player's greatest challenge is coming to grips with his role on the team.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24171]]></link><description><![CDATA[A gentleman is often seen, but very seldom heard to laugh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22410]]></link><description><![CDATA[An expert is someone who knows a lot about the past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is an attempt to smear a well-known group with allegations of involvement in espionage activity. They are preparing public ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41246]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is an attempt to smear a well-known group with allegations of involvement in espionage activity. They are preparing public opinion for a government move to close us down, which they can now do under the new law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41246</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[Your neighbor is the man who needs you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your neighbor is the man who needs you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're using the Internet today, you're using open source software; you're using Linux. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40465]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're using the Internet today, you're using open source software; you're using Linux.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's just one of those things, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31388]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's just one of those things,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3551]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green.  Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing   With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless we remember we cannot understand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless we remember we cannot understand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61317]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have drunk deep of the waters of my ancestors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hire people who want to make the best things in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63979]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4583]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11257]]></link><description><![CDATA[To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on forgiveness: To live of love, it is to dry Thy tears,   To seek ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concluding a short series on forgiveness: To live of love, it is to dry Thy tears,   To seek for pardon for each sinful soul, To strive to save all men from doubts and fears,   And bring them home to Thy benign control. Comes to my ear sin's wild and blasphemous roar;   So, to efface each day, that burning shame, I cry: "O Jesus Christ! I Thee adore.   I love Thy Name!".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51927]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behind the dim unknown, Standeth God with the shadow, keeping watch above his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They can only spend about 20 or 30 minutes before they run into pockets of carbon monoxide. It takes such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38108]]></link><description><![CDATA[They can only spend about 20 or 30 minutes before they run into pockets of carbon monoxide. It takes such a toll they have to come out and rest for about an hour.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They'll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An injured friend is the bitterest of foes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66820]]></link><description><![CDATA[An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To love is human, it is also human to forgive. [Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16514]]></link><description><![CDATA[To love is human, it is also human to forgive. [Lat., Humanum amare est, humanum autem ignoscere est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  The minister is the servant of his people, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Gilbert of Sempringham, Founder of the Gilbertine Order, 1189  The minister is the servant of his people, who has to help them discern for themselves the will of God for their real work in the real world. It will often be his duty, therefore, to establish a certain economy in the internal life of the Church, so that people are released to give time and energy to fulfilment of their Christian duty in the worlds of industry or politics or business or professional life, where their most determinative decisions have to be taken. A new puritanism is urgently needed in most churches, which cuts away ruthlessly from their life all organizations and activities which prevent their members from grappling with their real task.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4552]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who dares to teach must never cease to learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28877]]></link><description><![CDATA[The science of the mind can only have for its proper goal the understanding of human nature by every human being, and through its use, brings peace to every human soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23179]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3447]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12184]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12184</guid></item></channel></rss>