<?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[If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45932]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man would live in peace he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never assume the obvious is true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44848]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never assume the obvious is true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind,  Hath look'd on no religion scornfully  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind,  Hath look'd on no religion scornfully   That men did ever find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50768]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cause lies hidden; the effect is most notorious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53493]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds to religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1328]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56791]]></link><description><![CDATA[...the self-assertive tendency is the dynamic expression of the holon's wholeness, the integrative tendency, the dynamic expression of its partness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in with the bone of great men. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in with the bone of great men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arrogant powers intend to make countries local and national economy bankrupt in an attempt to make more benefits from establishing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41323]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arrogant powers intend to make countries local and national economy bankrupt in an attempt to make more benefits from establishing a big market]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now rather thank I God there is no riskOf gravers scoring it with florid screed.Let my inscription be this soldier's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62245]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now rather thank I God there is no riskOf gravers scoring it with florid screed.Let my inscription be this soldier's disc.Wear it, sweet friend. Inscribe no date nor deed.But may thy heart-beat kiss it, night and day,Until the name grow blurred and fade away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the PM wants to answer a different question, thatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s fine, and thatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s a good answer to a different question. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35298]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the PM wants to answer a different question, thatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s fine, and thatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s a good answer to a different question. But thatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s not the question. When it comes to this vote, will he be voting with or against the US?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If folly were griefe every house would weepe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49508]]></link><description><![CDATA[If folly were griefe every house would weepe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66719]]></link><description><![CDATA[By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41048]]></link><description><![CDATA[I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although it hurts me very much, I only touched it gently. That was just why it stung you, said his Mother. The next time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be soft as silk to your hand, and not in the least hurt you. Whatever you do, do with all your might.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65676]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would anticipate hopefully that Auburn has cleared these things up, and that when we review it in December that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36872]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would anticipate hopefully that Auburn has cleared these things up, and that when we review it in December that they will be cleared up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51817]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not surpassing in crafty measures, but in the power of arms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has found his soul's life in God is happy -- not, In truth, with perfect happiness: that is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8077]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has found his soul's life in God is happy -- not, In truth, with perfect happiness: that is not granted to men in this world, but a foretaste thereof --he has a secret joy which is beyond the reach of temptation, unrest, and sorrow; a quiet confidence and steadfastness which abide even while the waves and storms of life sweep over him... When the soul has sincerely given itself up to God, He fills it with His own peace, a peace which makes all earthly things indifferent -- as before His Presence, absorbing the heart. It is our strength, our comfort, our guide, the deeper and more confirmed it becomes, the greater our spiritual perfection; so that in truth to obtain and preserve this peace is the real secret of the interior life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25717]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business without profit is not business any more than a pickle is candy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gives to all, denies all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gives to all, denies all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25827]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're often so blind. Our demand for the credentialed so colors our perception of believeability, that we wouldn't recognize God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46084]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're often so blind. Our demand for the credentialed so colors our perception of believeability, that we wouldn't recognize God if he appeared within us. -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our biggest hazard out here is packrats. We don't want brush piles to build, so we prune our trees every ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our biggest hazard out here is packrats. We don't want brush piles to build, so we prune our trees every year near the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59002]]></link><description><![CDATA[These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,  Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,   Of deaths ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14172]]></link><description><![CDATA[So shall you hear Of carnal, bloody, and unnatural acts,  Of accidental judgments, casual slaughters,   Of deaths put on by cunning and forced cause,    And, in this upshot, purposes mistook     Fall'n on th' inventors' heads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride is the mask of one's own faults. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48223]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride is the mask of one's own faults.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsense! It gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7292]]></link><description><![CDATA["The Bible," we are told sometimes, "gives us such a beautiful picture of what we should be." Nonsense! It gives us no picture at all. It reveals to us a fact: it tells us what we really are; it says, This is the form in which God created you, to which He has restored you; this is the work which the Eternal Son, the God of Truth and Love, is continually carrying on within you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is the science of things which are not repeated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63490]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is the science of things which are not repeated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next week will be extremely heavy for earnings news , ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39122]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next week will be extremely heavy for earnings news ,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39122</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[Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh--  To figure in the Catalogue,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, something must be done for May, The time is drawing nigh--  To figure in the Catalogue,   And woo the public eye.    Something I must invent and paint;     But oh my wit is not      Like one of those kind substantives       That answer Who and What?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58865]]></link><description><![CDATA[To have a liberal temperament is a kind of psychological boon, To be able to understand that someone you disagree with is not just a terrible creature but somebody with whom you disagree]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19678]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing somethingthat isn't there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22414]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing somethingthat isn't there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, 1095   Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though "the commandments of God be not grievous", yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild:  They follow the beck of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5640]]></link><description><![CDATA[From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild:  They follow the beck of a baleful star,   Their paths are dream-beguiled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5640</guid></item></channel></rss>