<?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[Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God;  And only he who sees takes off his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God;  And only he who sees takes off his shoes;   The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;  It yearns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10464]]></link><description><![CDATA[By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost;  It yearns me not if me my garments wear;   Such outward things dwell not in my desires:    But if it be a sin to covet honor,     I am the most offending soul alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48401]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61201]]></link><description><![CDATA[War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing recedes like success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing recedes like success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lieutenant governor is a man of his word. He will fulfill his commitment to deliver a memo on the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40656]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lieutenant governor is a man of his word. He will fulfill his commitment to deliver a memo on the subject, and it would be disappointing for anyone to play politics on this issue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11840]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46365]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10215]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46789]]></link><description><![CDATA[When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51396]]></link><description><![CDATA[What king so strong, Can tie the gall up in a slanderer's tongue?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19363]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity is living easily and happily in the real world, whether you have money or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1132]]></link><description><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66103]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's right isn't always popular. What's popular isn't always right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. [Lat., Si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16569]]></link><description><![CDATA[If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. [Lat., Si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli;  Si fortuna tonat, caveto mergi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its griefs and anxieties. [Lat., Secundas res splendidiores facit amicitia, et adversas partiens communicansque leviores.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is long past time that the President and this Administration show its evidence. . .Today, we are introducing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47150]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is long past time that the President and this Administration show its evidence. . .Today, we are introducing a Resolution of Inquiry to compel the White House to substantiate its claims. The President led the nation to war, and spent at least $63 billion on that war, on the basis of these unfounded assertions. ~ Rep. Dennis Kucinich http://www.kucinich.us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men have become the tools of their tools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men have become the tools of their tools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52702]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and regularity in things than it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52390]]></link><description><![CDATA[The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and regularity in things than it really finds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only the sinner has a right to preach ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48061]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only the sinner has a right to preach]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of love is to listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66874]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45215]]></link><description><![CDATA[So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more of it remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17083]]></link><description><![CDATA[With mortal crisis doth portend, My days to appropinque an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62906]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The movie is really walking a very delicate line. Because I don't want to look like I'm condoning staying in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The movie is really walking a very delicate line. Because I don't want to look like I'm condoning staying in a marriage like that. And I'm not saying that it's right that women at the time had no choice but to stay in the home and raise kids, but at the same time, I wanted to celebrate the fact that she was a deeply intelligent, insightful, strong woman who found joy in that situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fish in troubled waters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16120]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fish in troubled waters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4496]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4496</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[Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pornography is the attempt to insult sex, to do dirt on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men still had faults, and men will have them still; He that hath none, and lives as angels do,  Must be an angel.   - Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3205]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3466]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a Mass Mind. The Mass Audience is made up of individuals, and good advertising is written always from one person to another. When it is aimed at millions it rarely moves anyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2510]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate, are often more impressive and powerful than argument]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words will not ever be able to express my sorrow and my profound regret for all my actions and mistakes. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words will not ever be able to express my sorrow and my profound regret for all my actions and mistakes. I hope I can merit forgiveness from the Almighty and those I've wronged or caused to suffer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13531]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Republican forces, but nearly all had accepted the need for organization and order in civilian life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business today consists in persuading crowds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business today consists in persuading crowds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5053</guid></item></channel></rss>