<?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[Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Neither "property" nor the value of property is a physical thing. Property is a set of defined options...It is that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Neither "property" nor the value of property is a physical thing. Property is a set of defined options...It is that set of options which has economic value...It is the options, and not the physical things, which are the "property" - economically as well as legally...But because the public tends to think of property as tangible, physical things, this opens the way politically for government confiscation of property by forcibly taking away options while leaving the physical objects untouched.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18076]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27311]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way;  But left me none the wiser,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46703]]></link><description><![CDATA[I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way;  But left me none the wiser,   For all she had to say.    I walked a mile with Sorrow     And ne'er a word said she;      But, oh, the things I learned from her       When Sorrow walked with me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14902]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guilt is anger directed at ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guilt is anger directed at ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no greater grief than to remember days of joy when misery is at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/805]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 For the power Thou hast given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 For the power Thou hast given me to lay hold of things unseen: For the strong sense I have that this is not my home: For my restless heart which nothing finite can satisfy:  I give Thee thanks, O God. For the invasion of my soul by Thy Holy Spirit: For all human love and goodness that speak to me of Thee: For the fullness of Thy glory outpoured in Jesus Christ  I give Thee thanks, O God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beneath The Surface . ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beneath The Surface .]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1267]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from those unkind; yet strange, I am ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24585]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from those unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hate shuts her soul when dove-eyed mercy pleads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15696]]></link><description><![CDATA[A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58701]]></link><description><![CDATA[Matrons, who toss the cup, and see The grounds of fate in grounds of tea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58701</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63624]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her Love, And thus the Soldier arm'd with Resolution  Told his soft Tale, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62015]]></link><description><![CDATA[So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her Love, And thus the Soldier arm'd with Resolution  Told his soft Tale, and was a thriving Wooer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60326]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the man who crosses the river at night knows the value of the light of day]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26931]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. [Lat., Vita enim mortuorum in memoria vivorum est posita.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way?  In shape and feature Beauty's queen,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way?  In shape and feature Beauty's queen,   In pastoral array.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too bad we didn't win. It would have been a lot of commotion and would have ended their win streak. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too bad we didn't win. It would have been a lot of commotion and would have ended their win streak.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the only lighthouse we've ever read about or heard about that has tide pools designed for the handicapped, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42390]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the only lighthouse we've ever read about or heard about that has tide pools designed for the handicapped, where you can actually take a wheelchair, go down ramps and go into the Pacific Ocean and touch the urchins and the starfish. That really impressed us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Water pressure is very high on these earth-made dams and there are more in danger of collapse as the floods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Water pressure is very high on these earth-made dams and there are more in danger of collapse as the floods last a long time and the levels are decreasing very slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From wine what sudden friendship springs? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61684]]></link><description><![CDATA[From wine what sudden friendship springs?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every day the church here (in Antioch] feeds 3000 people. Besides this, the church daily helps provide food and clothes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every day the church here (in Antioch] feeds 3000 people. Besides this, the church daily helps provide food and clothes for prisoners, the hospitalized, pilgrims, cripples, churchmen, and others. If only ten [other groups of] people were willing to do this, there wouldn't be a single poor man left in town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since I've been here a long time, I forget. I can speak it, but sometimes I have to go to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32581]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since I've been here a long time, I forget. I can speak it, but sometimes I have to go to my mom and dad for a word.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24250]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a drop in the bucket. It's helping the stock price today, but gastric cancer is not one of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a drop in the bucket. It's helping the stock price today, but gastric cancer is not one of the biggest markets for cancer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need every partner we can find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33382]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need every partner we can find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never hit a ball that far that didn't go over a fence. I think it really got us going ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never hit a ball that far that didn't go over a fence. I think it really got us going and helped carry us a little bit. It was a great day today to be in this atmosphere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59708]]></link><description><![CDATA[The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every county gets money under this plan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every county gets money under this plan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65635]]></link><description><![CDATA[A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent of it, and of all the rest of my sins together. So foolish was I, and ignorant. As if I should be more able to pay my debts when I owe more: or as if I should say, I will wound my friend once again, and then I will lovingly shake hands with him -- but what if my friend will not shake hands with me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all other philosophers are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42750]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27636]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52259]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We?re still trying to find ourselves on the mound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32720]]></link><description><![CDATA[We?re still trying to find ourselves on the mound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel personally very compromised. Wouldn't it be wonderful for Merced County to become this one oasis in an overdeveloped ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35833]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel personally very compromised. Wouldn't it be wonderful for Merced County to become this one oasis in an overdeveloped region?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss At lightest thrill from the bee's swinging chime,  Because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60134]]></link><description><![CDATA[When our two lives grew like two buds that kiss At lightest thrill from the bee's swinging chime,  Because the one so near the other is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17083]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17083</guid></item></channel></rss>