<?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[When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8758]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you get tired of walking around San Francisco, you can always lean against it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith is spiritualized imagination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith is spiritualized imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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I think they'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're awful glad that the taxpayers and the voters will have an opportunity to vote on this. I think they'll grab it just like a drowning man would grab a flotation ring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. [Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiamsi initio cautior fuerit, detegit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. [Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiamsi initio cautior fuerit, detegit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5323]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day,  They kindly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day,  They kindly leave us, though not quite alone,   But in good company--the gout or stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.  Rough winds do shake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58275]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate.  Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,   And summer's lease hath all too short a date.    Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,     And often is his gold complexion dimmed;      And every fair from fair sometime declines,       By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed:        But thy eternal summer shall not fade         Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,          Nor shall Death brag thou wand'rest in his shade           When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.            So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,             So ling lives this, and this gives life to thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45197]]></link><description><![CDATA[... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64668]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57943]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does not destroy me, makes me strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64915]]></link><description><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one is witty for his owne purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one is witty for his owne purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45374]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mark of rank in nature is capacity for pain, And the anguish of the singer marks the sweetness of the strain.   - Sarah Williams ("Saidie"),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seeming genial, venial fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seeming genial, venial fault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When two men quarrel, the one who yields first displays the nobler nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52707]]></link><description><![CDATA[When two men quarrel, the one who yields first displays the nobler nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God, ... declaring that he will be gentle and kind to all, gives to the utterly miserable hope that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7488]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God, ... declaring that he will be gentle and kind to all, gives to the utterly miserable hope that they will get what they have sought. Accordingly we must note the general forms by which no one from first to last (as people say) is excluded, provided sincerity of heart, dissatisfaction with ourselves, humility, and faith are present in order that our hypocrisy may not profane God's name by calling upon him deceitfully. Our most gracious Father will not cast out those whom he not only urges, but stirs up with every possible means, to come to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46575]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most peaceable way for you if you do take a thief, is to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the sword; the one uses it as a means of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50775]]></link><description><![CDATA[The robber and the cautious traveller alike are girded with the sword; the one uses it as a means of attack, the other as a means of defence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45744]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is a minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45744</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's looking for some meaningful penetration into the backline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57664]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's looking for some meaningful penetration into the backline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56992]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most instances, all an argument proves is that two people are present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3760]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choose good things and good things will choose you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choose good things and good things will choose you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53015]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas: he that reads books of science, though without any desire fixed of improvement, will grow more knowing; he that entertains himself with moral or religious treatises, will imperceptibly advance in goodness; the ideas which are often offered to the mind, will at last find a lucky moment when it is disposed to receive them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46186]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11016]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It is the one who won't be taken who cannot seem to give. And the soul afraid of dying that never learns to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45889]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good habits, once established are just as hard to break as are bad habits]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23591]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound  That breathes upon a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60723]]></link><description><![CDATA[It had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound  That breathes upon a bank of violets,   Stealing and giving odor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the forest primeval. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59687]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the forest primeval.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've been blessed with very, very good weather and the wholesale price has gone down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37942]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've been blessed with very, very good weather and the wholesale price has gone down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's just like a grandpa to me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40971]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just like a grandpa to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of thinking independently together ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of thinking independently together]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46487]]></link><description><![CDATA[O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not understanding the process of a spontaneously-ordered economy goes hand-in-hand with not understanding the creation of resources and wealth. And when a person does not understand the creation of resources and wealth, the only intellectual alternative is to believe that increasing wealth must be at the cost of someone else. This belief that our good fortune must be an exploitation of others may be the taproot of false prophecy about doom that our evil ways must bring upon us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63687]]></link><description><![CDATA[At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illinois pork producers and the pork industry are committed to providing a safe, quality, affordable protein source, while caring for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35425]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illinois pork producers and the pork industry are committed to providing a safe, quality, affordable protein source, while caring for the environment, being a good neighbor, and adding economic development to our economy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. -Tryon Edwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2608]]></link><description><![CDATA[To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. -Tryon Edwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2608</guid></item></channel></rss>