<?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[Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known,  Happy field or mossy cavern,   Choicer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20993]]></link><description><![CDATA[Souls of poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known,  Happy field or mossy cavern,   Choicer than the Mermaid Tavern?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15678]]></link><description><![CDATA[FINANCE, n. The art or science of managing revenues and resources for the best advantage of the manager. The pronunciation of this word with the i long and the accent on the first syllable is one of America's most precious discoveries and possessions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54818]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My minde to me a kingdome is, Such perfect joy therein I finde  As farre exceeds all earthly blisse ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27507]]></link><description><![CDATA[My minde to me a kingdome is, Such perfect joy therein I finde  As farre exceeds all earthly blisse   That God or Nature hath assignde    Though much I want that most would have     Yet still my minde forbids to crave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55083]]></link><description><![CDATA[SELFISH, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Like People magazine, which started as a page in Time before becoming one of the country's most popular celebrity weeklies, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31592]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Like People magazine, which started as a page in Time before becoming one of the country's most popular celebrity weeklies, Cooking Light debuted as a small column in Southern Living. When that proved hugely popular, two Cooking Light cookbooks were published.] They sold out, ... so we decided to launch a magazine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All things deteriorate in time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51782]]></link><description><![CDATA[All things deteriorate in time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is the soul of business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the soul of business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66346]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   Thus was the Cross of Christ, in St. Paul's day, the glory of Christians; not as it signified their not being ashamed to own a master that was crucified, but as it signified their glorying in a religion which was nothing else but a doctrine of the Cross that called them to the same suffering spirit, the same sacrifice of themselves, the same renunciation of the world, the same humility and meekness, the same patient bearing of injuries, reproaches and contempts, and the same dying to all the greatness, honours, and happiness of this world, which Christ showed on the Cross.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hardest people to reach with the love of God are not the bad people. They know they are bad. They have no defense. The hardest ones to win for God are the self-righteous people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. [Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insania.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22928]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. [Lat., Nihil aliud est ebrietas quam voluntaria insania.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5966]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two things a child will share willingly: communicable diseases and his mother's age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My heart I fain would ask thee What then is Love? say on.  "Two souls and one thought only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25624]]></link><description><![CDATA[My heart I fain would ask thee What then is Love? say on.  "Two souls and one thought only   Two hearts that throb as one."    [Ger., Mein Herz ich will dich fragen,     Was ist denn Liebe, sag?      "Zwei Seelen und ein Gedanke,       Zwei Herzen und ein Schlag."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66059]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34295]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bulgaria is guilty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42342]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bulgaria is guilty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26461]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if the committee carried the message in the exact words with no words missing, but left out the persuasion of gesture, the supplicating tone, and the beseeching looks which inform the words and give them life, where then were the power of the arguments and whom would it convince?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have scorched the snake, not killed it. She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice  Remains in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have scorched the snake, not killed it. She'll close and be herself, whilst our poor malice  Remains in danger of her former tooth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12339]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom adapts itself to expediency ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom adapts itself to expediency]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52586]]></link><description><![CDATA[The undressed is vulgar - the nude is pure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone seemed really calm and accepting; no one was irate. I think once everyone was fully informed of what was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone seemed really calm and accepting; no one was irate. I think once everyone was fully informed of what was going on and where to go, they seemed to react better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6095]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only ofcomfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22736]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only ofcomfort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate;  The lonely mountains soar in scorn   As still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58338]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate;  The lonely mountains soar in scorn   As still as death, as stern as fate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9799]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22150]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting. - Benchley -- or Else!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are inmates part of a fix? Absolutely. But to send an inmate out as a quasi-United Nations representative? Who's controlling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are inmates part of a fix? Absolutely. But to send an inmate out as a quasi-United Nations representative? Who's controlling that? Who's running the damn place when you're using peacekeepers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This flower that first appeared as summer's guest Preserves her beauty 'mid autumnal leaves  And to her mournful habits ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25938]]></link><description><![CDATA[This flower that first appeared as summer's guest Preserves her beauty 'mid autumnal leaves  And to her mournful habits fondly cleaves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We appreciate everything they are doing to make the road safer, but the curve needs to be straightened. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30365]]></link><description><![CDATA[We appreciate everything they are doing to make the road safer, but the curve needs to be straightened.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know any other way to lead but by example. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16403]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know any other way to lead but by example.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum,  And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on,   While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9759]]></link><description><![CDATA[During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not a good Christian who is not heartily sorry for the faults even of his greatest enemies. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7245]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not a good Christian who is not heartily sorry for the faults even of his greatest enemies. And if he will be so, he will lay them bare no further than is necessary to some good end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to indulge in them; a man cannot tell his dream till he wakes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Study to be what you wish to seem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2277]]></link><description><![CDATA[Study to be what you wish to seem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61944]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221  Verily, if thou desirest to have the Creator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221  Verily, if thou desirest to have the Creator of all creatures, thou must renounce all creatures; for it cannot be otherwise, but only insomuch as thy soul is emptied and bared; the less of the creature, the more of God: this is but a fair bargain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52258]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sanctions will be related to a region's general allocation funds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sanctions will be related to a region's general allocation funds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57580]]></link><description><![CDATA[If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57580</guid></item></channel></rss>