<?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[To be vain of one's rank or place, is to show that one is below it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52958]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be vain of one's rank or place, is to show that one is below it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52958</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that costs. [Fr., La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coute.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is absolutely no justification for the actions you have taken, ... You have already defamed the uniform. Do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35870]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is absolutely no justification for the actions you have taken, ... You have already defamed the uniform. Do not drench it with dishonor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We recognize that Ms. Love has a serious problem with substance abuse, but that does not excuse or justify an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35858]]></link><description><![CDATA[We recognize that Ms. Love has a serious problem with substance abuse, but that does not excuse or justify an unwarranted and vicious attack on another human being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20684]]></link><description><![CDATA[And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62763]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Convey, the wise it call. Steal! foh! a fico for the phrase! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55350]]></link><description><![CDATA[Convey, the wise it call. Steal! foh! a fico for the phrase! -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people wave their dogmatic thinking until their own reason is entangled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23677]]></link><description><![CDATA[The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dogs never bite me. Just humans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dogs never bite me. Just humans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57233]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish man despiseth his mother]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47033]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48469]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people who can really benefit from our songs are the girls in middle America and the only way you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30541]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people who can really benefit from our songs are the girls in middle America and the only way you can really get through to them is TV.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This jury issue is certainly going to be a very significant part of the appeal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28728]]></link><description><![CDATA[This jury issue is certainly going to be a very significant part of the appeal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defense is the stronger form with the negative object, and attack the weaker form with the positive object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5389]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46867]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2318]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the summit see, The seals of office glitter in his eyes;  He climbs, he pants, he grasps them! At his heels,   Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends,    And with a dexterous jerk soon twists him down,     And wins them, but to lose them in his turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So I am incredibly worried tonight about him and his safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40065]]></link><description><![CDATA[So I am incredibly worried tonight about him and his safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28159]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyday of my life I am forced to add another name to the list of people who piss me off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20875]]></link><description><![CDATA[Influencing people is dangerous. Their acts and thoughts become your illegitimate children. You can't get away from them and Heaven knows what they mayn't grow up into.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a great honor for our school. It shows the improvement we've made. We used to be one of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28806]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a great honor for our school. It shows the improvement we've made. We used to be one of the worst athletic programs around, but we've worked hard to get where we are today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20203]]></link><description><![CDATA[His purity was too great, his aspiration too high for this poor, miserable world! His great soul is now only enjoying that for which it was worthy!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11345]]></link><description><![CDATA[One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20984]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[More and more, churches have become gathering places that offer a panoply of services, and one of them is retail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30192]]></link><description><![CDATA[More and more, churches have become gathering places that offer a panoply of services, and one of them is retail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The symbol of the New Testament and the Christian Church is a cross, which stands for a love faithful despite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6429]]></link><description><![CDATA[The symbol of the New Testament and the Christian Church is a cross, which stands for a love faithful despite physical agony and rejection by the world. No amount of air-conditioning and pew-cusioning in the suburban church can cover over the hard truth that the Christian life... is a narrow way of suffering; that discipleship is costly: that, for the faithful, there is always a cross to be carried. No one can understand Christianity to its depths who comes to it to enjoy it as a pleasant weekend diversion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visualization and belief in a pattern of reality, Activates the creative power of Realization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Visualization and belief in a pattern of reality, Activates the creative power of Realization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise, to someone like...me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45456]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your optimistic eyes seem like paradise, to someone like...me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fully 93 percent of the tax relief in our bill goes to taxpayers with annual incomes under $100,000, 76 percent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30202]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fully 93 percent of the tax relief in our bill goes to taxpayers with annual incomes under $100,000, 76 percent goes to taxpayers with incomes under $75,000, ... If ever there was a tax plan for America's forgotten middle class, this is it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is free who does not lord over himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1299]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is free who does not lord over himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be  Ere one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18786]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be  Ere one can say 'It lightens.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66386]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52573]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58501]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hog that ploughs not, not obeys thy call, Lives on the labours of this lord of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire:  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Paulinus, Bishop of York, Missionary, 644   God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire:   Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like everybody who is not in love, he thought one chose the person to be loved after endless deliberations and on the basis of particular qualities or advantages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With vollies of eternal babble. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58605]]></link><description><![CDATA[With vollies of eternal babble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine  Of life and passions,--sweeter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26611]]></link><description><![CDATA[O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine  Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26611</guid></item></channel></rss>