<?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[Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60100]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The King turned a deaf ear to friendly countries' calls for rapprochement with political parties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41280]]></link><description><![CDATA[The King turned a deaf ear to friendly countries' calls for rapprochement with political parties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12924]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But she's got to lead us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37156]]></link><description><![CDATA[But she's got to lead us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26081]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Focus on your potential instead of your limitations ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Focus on your potential instead of your limitations]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Govern your temper, which will rule you unless kept in subjection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is the dress of thoughts.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is the dress of thoughts.   - Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth Earl of Chesterfield,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9260]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't anticipate any workforce impact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37584]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't anticipate any workforce impact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  We may look into a church, almost any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  We may look into a church, almost any church, and discover someone who, though he is offered a gospel of love, must subtly convert it into a gospel of hate before he can receive it. The gospel of love -- with its emphasis upon brotherhood, equality before God, the dignity of every human being, and man's social responsibility toward man -- does not satisfy the lack that he urgently feels. That calls for something altogether different, for an assurance that he is superior, that he is right where others are wrong -- a kind of cosmic teacher's pet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15900]]></link><description><![CDATA[My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the Spirit that denies. [Ger., Ich bin der Geist stets verneint.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57397]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the Spirit that denies. [Ger., Ich bin der Geist stets verneint.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of John Chrysostom, Bishop of Constantinople, Teacher, 407   Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game one foot from a winning touch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21222]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61300]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were our pets. Whoever did this went to a lot of trouble to steal someone's pets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39511]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were our pets. Whoever did this went to a lot of trouble to steal someone's pets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  God, though present everywhere, has His special residence, as being a pure Spirit, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7376]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Conversion of Paul  God, though present everywhere, has His special residence, as being a pure Spirit, in our minds -- "In Him we live, and move, and have our being". He is somewhere in the recesses of our soul, in the springs of our existence, a light in that mysterious region of our nature where the wishes, feelings, thoughts, and emotions take their earliest rise. The mind is a sanctuary, in the center of which the Lord sits enthroned, the lamp of consciousness burning before Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10641]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10641</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63594]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43568]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14136]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We then use the empty containers that we off load and fill them back up with cotton from the United ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37134]]></link><description><![CDATA[We then use the empty containers that we off load and fill them back up with cotton from the United States and send it to China.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18623]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No law reaches it, but all right- minded people observe it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11573]]></link><description><![CDATA[No law reaches it, but all right- minded people observe it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the first thing I said when I got back in the locker room, I can't wait until Monday. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37598]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the first thing I said when I got back in the locker room, I can't wait until Monday. It's a big game, national TV.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5461]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5325]]></link><description><![CDATA[As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27659]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rough Johnson, the great moralist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43093]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rough Johnson, the great moralist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10436]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens--these seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the illustrious Homer. [Lat., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smyrna, Rhodes, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athens--these seven cities contend as to being the birthplace of the illustrious Homer. [Lat., Smyrna, Rhodos, Colophon, Salamis, Chios, Argos, Athenae,  Hae septem certant de stirpe insignis Homeri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is properly no history, only biography. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19330]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is properly no history, only biography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58586]]></link><description><![CDATA[All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trivial losses often prove great gains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trivial losses often prove great gains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3046]]></link><description><![CDATA[A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13908]]></link><description><![CDATA[England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned friend's manner would be intolerable in Almighty God to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26227]]></link><description><![CDATA[My lords, we are vertebrate animals, we are mammalia! My learned friend's manner would be intolerable in Almighty God to a black beetle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26227</guid></item></channel></rss>