<?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[What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47006]]></link><description><![CDATA[What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman either loves or hates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51580]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman either loves or hates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64318]]></link><description><![CDATA[My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the 1970s and 1980s, many biologists thought wolverines were gone from Washington. It's only in the last 10 years ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39741]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the 1970s and 1980s, many biologists thought wolverines were gone from Washington. It's only in the last 10 years we were sure they were here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39741</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Photography is truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Photography is truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument  About it and about: but evermore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument  About it and about: but evermore   Came out by the same door wherein I went.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/221]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ThatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s a critical time in kidsÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢ lives when they need discipline, and he had it. And he had school spirit. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31632]]></link><description><![CDATA[ThatÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s a critical time in kidsÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢ lives when they need discipline, and he had it. And he had school spirit. Back then, you were proud to represent your team and your city and your school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18610]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death,  Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death,  Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood   With swarthy webs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cheered up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cheered up himself with ends of verse And sayings of philosophers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5485]]></link><description><![CDATA[God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prince, give praise to our French ladies For the sweet sound their speaking carries;  'Twixt Rome and Cadiz many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prince, give praise to our French ladies For the sweet sound their speaking carries;  'Twixt Rome and Cadiz many a maid is,   But no good girl's lip out of Paris.   - Algernon Charles Swinburne,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53552]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come on high and are contained in the sacred writings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass Carrying the Image AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous woodenImage, to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1502]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass Carrying the Image AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous woodenImage, to be placed in one of its Temples. As he passed along,the crowd made lowly prostration before the Image. The Ass,thinking that they bowed their heads in token of respect forhimself, bristled up with pride, gave himself airs, and refusedto move another step. The driver, seeing him thus stop, laid hiswhip lustily about his shoulders and said, O you perversedull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to anAss. They are not wise who give to themselves the credit due to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter: that when he speaks, The air, a chartered libertine, is still. -King Henry V. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27520]]></link><description><![CDATA[Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I encourage everybody to apply, not just the smartest and brightest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39601]]></link><description><![CDATA[I encourage everybody to apply, not just the smartest and brightest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22638]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17217]]></link><description><![CDATA[A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8235]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Slight are the outward signs of evil thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Slight are the outward signs of evil thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12650]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Hazael said, But what, is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, The Lord hath shewed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why should the devil have all the good tunes?. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why should the devil have all the good tunes?.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity is the glory of expression. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56361]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity is the glory of expression.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20106]]></link><description><![CDATA[WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is but a truism that labor is most productive where its wages are largest. Poorly paid labor is inefficient labor, the world over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste,  And in a cruel wantonness of power, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste,  And in a cruel wantonness of power,   Thinn'd states of half their people, and gave up    To want the rest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9465]]></link><description><![CDATA[This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57954]]></link><description><![CDATA[Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attention to health is life greatest hindrance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18925]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10342]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60086]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1192]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words pregnant with celestial fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words pregnant with celestial fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now-always and indeed then most truly when it seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59844]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now-always and indeed then most truly when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances. -Albert Schweitzer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance,  But never out of judgment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24661]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance,  But never out of judgment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too quick a sense of constant infelicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't go near the water until you learn how to swim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's a man for a' that! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26261]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's a man for a' that!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Follow your heart, but be quiet for a while first. Ask questions, then feel the answer. Learn to trust your heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The laughter of adults was always very different from the laughter of children. The former indicated a recognition of the familiar, but in children it came from the shock of the new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24200</guid></item></channel></rss>