<?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 media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26652]]></link><description><![CDATA[The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...there is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47337]]></link><description><![CDATA[...there is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Christ the Lord is risen to-day," Sons of men and angels say.  Raise your joys and triumphs high;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13153]]></link><description><![CDATA["Christ the Lord is risen to-day," Sons of men and angels say.  Raise your joys and triumphs high;   Sing, ye heavens, and earth reply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by.  Fill up my pilgrim's scrip ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3928]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beggar through the world am I, From place to place I wander by.  Fill up my pilgrim's scrip for me,   For Christ's sweet sake and charity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15010]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42626]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want what I am saying to sound like a prophecy or anything like an analysis of modern society... these are only feelings I have, and I am the least speculative man on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the mother of health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the mother of health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26775]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this country we encourage "creativity" among the mediocre, but real bursting creativity appalls us. We put it down as undisciplined, as somehow "too much.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15806]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54545]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth. Without it, happiness is almost impossible. Martha Washington ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18726]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care of yourself. Good health is everyone's major source of wealth. Without it, happiness is almost impossible. Martha Washington -Unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61750]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,  How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51560]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no disputing about taste. [Lat., De gustibus non disputandum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come inwhen deep down inside they know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people stand on the dock of life waiting for their ship to come inwhen deep down inside they know it has never left port.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth is truth To the end of reckoning. -Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46687]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46709]]></link><description><![CDATA[I fly from pleasure, because pleasure has ceased to please: I am lonely because I am miserable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45549]]></link><description><![CDATA[Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the officials desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65447]]></link><description><![CDATA[An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing? Never.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2689]]></link><description><![CDATA[My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whinning about for years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[the only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39018]]></link><description><![CDATA[the only reason the House hasn't done even more damage is that the Senate often sands down the most noxious ideas, making the bills merely bad, not disastrous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Help thy brother's boat across, and Lo! Thine own has reached the shore ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Help thy brother's boat across, and Lo! Thine own has reached the shore]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past-- For years fleet away with the wings of the dove-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23825]]></link><description><![CDATA[When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past-- For years fleet away with the wings of the dove--  The dearest remembrance will still be the last,   Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems like an innocent act -- trying to start a vehicle -- but by not being properly positioned, you've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31665]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems like an innocent act -- trying to start a vehicle -- but by not being properly positioned, you've got a fatal injury. It's a horrible tragedy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46850]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Poet without Love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66202]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The confidence of ignorance will always overcome indecision of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drugs are a bet with your mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13026]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drugs are a bet with your mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8969]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most protean aspect of comedy is its potentiality for transcending itself, for responding to the conditions of tragedy by laughing in the darkness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead of allowing yourself to be unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow. Seek goodness ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead of allowing yourself to be unhappy, just let your love grow as God wants it to grow. Seek goodness in others. Love more persons more -- love them more impersonally, more unselfishly, without thought of return. The return, never fear, will take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the nonpharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46534]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55349]]></link><description><![CDATA[O base Hungarian wight! wilt thou the spigot wield? -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats;  Chambers of the great are jails, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19228]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats;  Chambers of the great are jails,   And head-winds right for royal sails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men die, but sorrow never dies; The crowding years divide in vain,  And the wide world is knit with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men die, but sorrow never dies; The crowding years divide in vain,  And the wide world is knit with ties   Of common brotherhood in pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894  We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Christina Rossetti, Poet, 1894  We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a larger goal. It often happens that an early success is a greater moral hazard than an early failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41180]]></link><description><![CDATA[But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64314]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26447]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26447</guid></item></channel></rss>