<?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[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12311]]></link><description><![CDATA[The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21061]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's kind of fun to do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stupidity has a knack of getting its way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5593]]></link><description><![CDATA[In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's good about the Lehigh Valley is that we are not dependent on a single industry. We now have a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39400]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's good about the Lehigh Valley is that we are not dependent on a single industry. We now have a variety of companies here, and we're not relying on the former Bethlehem Steel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will give the devil his due. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55839]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will give the devil his due. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All is not well. I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come!  Till then sit still, my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58413]]></link><description><![CDATA[All is not well. I doubt some foul play. Would the night were come!  Till then sit still, my soul. Foul deeds will rise,   Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49364]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65697]]></link><description><![CDATA[I often wonder, if those that smile the most, are the most saddest people in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin,  And to the stack or the barn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8937]]></link><description><![CDATA[While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin,  And to the stack or the barn door   Stoutly struts his dames before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it a world to hide virtues in? -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55737]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it a world to hide virtues in? -Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55737</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17214]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just when you think that a person is just a backdrop for the rest of the universe, watch them and see that they laugh, they cry, they tell jokes ... they're just friends waiting to be made.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50506]]></link><description><![CDATA[The same dish cooked over and over again wears out the irksome life of the teacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's one of the largest betrayals. People have been led into this false sense of security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40488]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's one of the largest betrayals. People have been led into this false sense of security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! the small discredit of a bribe Scarce hurts the lawyer, but undoes the scribe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12571]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows that from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8144]]></link><description><![CDATA[We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55524]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bless thee, Bottom! bless thee! thou art translated. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But who would scorn the month of June, Because December with his breath so hoary,  Must come? Much rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48728]]></link><description><![CDATA[But who would scorn the month of June, Because December with his breath so hoary,  Must come? Much rather should he court the ray,   To hoard up warmth against a wintry day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recognize the duty of governments to combat crime, but this is a knee-jerk response -- it shows that China's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41753]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recognize the duty of governments to combat crime, but this is a knee-jerk response -- it shows that China's 'Strike Hard' crime campaign mentality is still prevalent, at least in some parts of the country. There is no evidence that the death penalty deters crime more effectively than other punishments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first horror film I remember seeing in the theatre was Halloween and from the first scene when the kid puts on the mask and it is his POV, I was hooked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident. -James P. Hogan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is not the greatest of evils; it is worse to want to die, and not be able to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,  And there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madam, you have bereft me of all words. Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,  And there is such confusion in my powers   As, after some oration fairly spoke    By a beloved prince, there doth appear     Among the buzzing pleased multitude,      Where every something being blent together       Turns to a wild of nothing, save of joy        Expressed and not expressed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32510]]></link><description><![CDATA[I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lost time is never found again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lost time is never found again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,  And truth disclaiming both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth,  And truth disclaiming both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the way I play. I played that way in college. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29241]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the way I play. I played that way in college.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is the strongest hitter in this program, and he has been for the last three years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34642]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is the strongest hitter in this program, and he has been for the last three years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's still very weak. I really don't know when I can get him off a mound, let alone in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30292]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's still very weak. I really don't know when I can get him off a mound, let alone in a game. So the clock is ticking, and it's not going to stop. It's going on nine or 10 days since he's pitched a game. These are all the things you can't make up for. All you can do is, first and foremost, get him healthy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, Spiritual Writer, 1626 Commemoration of Sergius of Radonezh, Russian Monastic Reformer, Teacher, 1392   Pierce that in you, that was the cause of Christ's piercing; that is sin and the lusts thereof. Look and be pierced with love of Him, who so loved you, that He gave Himself in this sort to be pierced for you. Look upon Him, and His heart opened, and from that gate of hope promise yourself, and look for all manner of things that good are: the deliverance from the evil of our present misery [and] the restoring to the good of our primitive felicity. Look back upon it with some pain; for one way or other, look upon it we must.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20348]]></link><description><![CDATA[Other men have acquired fame by industry, but this man by indolence. [Lat., Utque alios industria, ita hunc ignavia ad vamam protulat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22575]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you play it safe in life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57001]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While this is a good alternative, these bullets are not available on the market. We have to be careful how ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36129]]></link><description><![CDATA[While this is a good alternative, these bullets are not available on the market. We have to be careful how we approach this. It is a touchy subject and we don't want people to think we are shoving something down their throats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of All Saints  What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case they got involved) into heroes who would stop at nothing? A swindle? Hallucination? Spooky nonsense in a darkened room? Or Somebody quietly doing what He said He'd do -- walk right through death? What do YOU think?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64968]]></link><description><![CDATA[A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. -Ausonius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law of England is the greatest grievance of the nation, very expensive and dilatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have had a very successful construction season this summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32421]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have had a very successful construction season this summer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then happy those, beloved of heaven, To whom the mingled cup is given;  Whose lenient sorrow find relief,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51035]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then happy those, beloved of heaven, To whom the mingled cup is given;  Whose lenient sorrow find relief,   Whose joys are chastened by their grief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23521]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19160]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13552]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13552</guid></item></channel></rss>