<?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[If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54773]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all the rich and all of the church people should send their children to the public schools they would feel bound to concentrate their money on improving these schools until they met the highest ideals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power  Upon a shining ore, and called ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power  Upon a shining ore, and called it gold;   Before whose image bow the vulgar great,    The vainly rich, the miserable proud,     The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings,      And with blind feelings reverence the power       That grinds them to the dust of misery.        But in the temple of their hireling hearts         Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn          All earthly things but virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fewer the words, the better the prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4892]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fewer the words, the better the prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There aren't any embarrassing questions -- only embarrassing answers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23364]]></link><description><![CDATA[There aren't any embarrassing questions -- only embarrassing answers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest. [Ger., Die Menschen gehen wie Schiesskugeln weiter, wenn sie abgeglattet sind.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58251]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12350]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer. [Lat., Id demum est homini turpe, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12520]]></link><description><![CDATA[That only is a disgrace to a man which he has deserved to suffer. [Lat., Id demum est homini turpe, quod meruit pati.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to leave out the parts that people skip. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27706]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to leave out the parts that people skip.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Linnets . . . sit On the dead tree, a dull despondent flock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Linnets . . . sit On the dead tree, a dull despondent flock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the cock-loft is empty, in those whom nature hath built many stories high.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -Mother Theresa. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23801]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -Mother Theresa.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is truecourage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is truecourage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/419]]></link><description><![CDATA[See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing about this group is, when you look at them individually, there is no 'stunning' talent. But when they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38615]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing about this group is, when you look at them individually, there is no 'stunning' talent. But when they get together as a group, they're far more impressive. That's the power that this group has.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  They only renounce the world as they ought, who live in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Thomas Merton, Monk, Spiritual Writer, 1968  They only renounce the world as they ought, who live in the midst of it without worldly tempers, who comply with their share in the offices of human life without complying with the spirit that reigneth in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrowe is in vaine,  For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45682]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrowe is in vaine,  For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers   Will ne'er make grow againe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dispel the cold, bounteously replenishing the hearth with logs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though I say't that should not say't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though I say't that should not say't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thanklessChristmas dinner's dark and blueWhen you stop and try to see itFrom the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/205]]></link><description><![CDATA[POINT OF VIEW Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thanklessChristmas dinner's dark and blueWhen you stop and try to see itFrom the turkey's point of view.Sunday dinner isn't sunnyEaster feasts are just bad luckWhen you see it from the viewpointOf a chicken or a duck.Oh how I once loved tuna saladPork and lobsters, lamb chops tooTill I stopped and looked at dinnerFrom the dinner's point of view.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It happens, ... It's happened a couple of times to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28248]]></link><description><![CDATA[It happens, ... It's happened a couple of times to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8914]]></link><description><![CDATA[The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43649]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.  ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even into your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. ]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one teaches, two learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63888]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one teaches, two learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44992]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have opinions of my own - strong opinions - but I don't always agree with them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17842]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Nathanael said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. [Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17139]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. [Lat., Necesse est facere sumptum, qui quaerit lucrum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14230]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51048]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who gathers thistles, may expect pricks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62425]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/78]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/78</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53454]]></link><description><![CDATA[This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fall of dropping water wears away the stone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46180]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fall of dropping water wears away the stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life ain't all beer and skittles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life ain't all beer and skittles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood, And customs, when their reasons are unknown,  Have stirred up many zealous souls ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62637]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood, And customs, when their reasons are unknown,  Have stirred up many zealous souls   To fight against imaginary giants.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13012]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's some fatigue among the average Republican. They're tired of it all. They're tired of scandals. They're tired of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39622]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's some fatigue among the average Republican. They're tired of it all. They're tired of scandals. They're tired of the White House. They're ready for change.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26517]]></link><description><![CDATA[Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48045]]></link><description><![CDATA[God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,  A gauntlet with a gift in 't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48045</guid></item></channel></rss>