<?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[Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39151]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law is a bottomless pit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law is a bottomless pit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't him; it must have been some forces behind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29905]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't him; it must have been some forces behind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been asked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7998]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Thomas] Carlyle believed that every man has a special duty to do in this world. If he had been asked what especially he conceived his own duty to be, he would have said that it was to force men to realize once more that the world was actually governed by a just God; that the old familiar story, acknowledged everywhere in words on Sundays and disregarded or openly denied on week-days, was, after all, true. His writings, every one of them, ... were to this same purpose and on this same text -- that truth must be spoken and justice must be done; on any other conditions, no real commonwealth, no common welfare, is permitted or possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27465]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17397]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your best teacher is your last mistake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your best teacher is your last mistake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5889]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58068]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24393]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64597]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12526]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disgraced like a man whose own pet bites him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature -- the urge to love and be loved -- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8160]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature -- the urge to love and be loved -- must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross. At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We burn daylight. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55354]]></link><description><![CDATA[We burn daylight. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And see all sights from pole to pole And glance, and nod, and bustle by,  And never once possess ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57267]]></link><description><![CDATA[And see all sights from pole to pole And glance, and nod, and bustle by,  And never once possess our soul   Before we die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57267</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53315]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what accomplishments you make, somebody helped you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're issuing crap at the speed of light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36011]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're issuing crap at the speed of light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity reminds men of religion. [Lat., Adverse res admonent religionum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity reminds men of religion. [Lat., Adverse res admonent religionum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16987]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33604]]></link><description><![CDATA[These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Americans want grungy people, stabbing themselves in the head on stage. They get a bright bunch like us, with deodorant on, they don't get it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59231]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, theres no knowing where you might be swept off to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5077]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My sister wanted to be an actress. She never made it, but she does live in a trailer... so she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/406]]></link><description><![CDATA[My sister wanted to be an actress. She never made it, but she does live in a trailer... so she got halfway. She's an actress, she's just never called to the set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10724]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the strong ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colors that blend with the brick and the dark waters of the city's canals - greens, browns and the strong shade of oxblood that is known as Bruges red.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Business leaders often get credit for the successful decisions that were forced on them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is good health and a bad memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2322]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean,  Whilst she, in the vault of heaven, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43077]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the moon's fair image quaketh In the raging waves of ocean,  Whilst she, in the vault of heaven,   Moves with silent peaceful motion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the twinkling of an eye. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55576]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the twinkling of an eye. -The Merchant of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence, as for his repose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As innocent as a new-laid egg. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20952]]></link><description><![CDATA[As innocent as a new-laid egg.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I no sooner in my heart divin'd My heart, which by a secret harmony  Still moves with thine, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58527]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I no sooner in my heart divin'd My heart, which by a secret harmony  Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have been able to clarify issues, ... I do not want to say it does not mean ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41944]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have been able to clarify issues, ... I do not want to say it does not mean that in all details we agree 100 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm in charge of the EOC ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31559]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm in charge of the EOC]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The governor certainly takes pride in Pittsburgh's accomplishments and would be more than willing to participate in a friendly wager. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The governor certainly takes pride in Pittsburgh's accomplishments and would be more than willing to participate in a friendly wager.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bluebird carries the sky on his back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bluebird carries the sky on his back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50930]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  Words are merely carriers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7664]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Vincent de Paul, Founder of the Congregation of the Mission (Lazarists), 1660  Words are merely carriers of the secret, supernatural communications, the light and call of God. That is why spiritual books bear such different meanings for different types and qualities of soul, why each time we read them they give us something fresh, as we can bear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the first period when we had that lead, we were still missing easy shots. It should've been about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32453]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the first period when we had that lead, we were still missing easy shots. It should've been about a 14-15-point lead, really.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32453</guid></item></channel></rss>