<?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[Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?  Sweet Helen, make ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?  Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss.--   Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies!--]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many diseases may be cured by abstinence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many diseases may be cured by abstinence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63561]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I spent a year in that town, one Sunday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4733]]></link><description><![CDATA[I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cried because I had no shoes, then I met a man who had no feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter.  We therefore deemed it meeter   To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56163]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter.  We therefore deemed it meeter   To carry off the latter.   - Thomas Love Peacock,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13530]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26742]]></link><description><![CDATA[The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -General Omar Bradley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59240]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stung by the splendour of a sudden thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those guys stepped up. I feel fortunate to have them as teammates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42260]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those guys stepped up. I feel fortunate to have them as teammates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44270]]></link><description><![CDATA[On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom--they are the pillars of society. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56928]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom--they are the pillars of society.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6770]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God. I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself; on the contrary, I have always judged it better to loathe myself the more, in proportion as I was assured that God was pacified towards me (Ezekiel 16:63).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It seems there are never enough [left-handed] desks. I have worked here for 30 years and the shortage of left-handed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30274]]></link><description><![CDATA[It seems there are never enough [left-handed] desks. I have worked here for 30 years and the shortage of left-handed desks has not been a problem before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46941]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are Republicans, and don't propose to leave our party and identify ourselves with the party whose antecedents have been Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One might speak to great length of the three corners of realitywhat was seen, what was thought to be seen, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53047]]></link><description><![CDATA[One might speak to great length of the three corners of realitywhat was seen, what was thought to be seen, and what was thought ought to be seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. -Helena Petrova Blavatsky.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns  Into a royal court with green ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23126]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns  Into a royal court with green festoons   The banks of dark lagoons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45625]]></link><description><![CDATA[The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Universe has as many different centers as there are living beings in it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56315]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silent influence of books, is a mighty power in the world; and there is a joy in reading them known only to those who read them with desire and enthusiasm. Silent, passive, and noiseless though they be, they yet set in action countless multitudes, and change the order of nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away  Over the snowy peaks! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8908]]></link><description><![CDATA[See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away  Over the snowy peaks!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/522]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/522</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. [Lat., Aut ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20916]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself. [Lat., Aut potentior te, aut imbecillior laesit: si imbecillior, barce ille; si potentior, tibi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/333]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60769]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which leads us to the performance of duty by offering pleasure as its reward, is not virtue, but a deceptive copy and imitation of virtue. [Lat., Nam quae voluptate, quasi mercede aliqua, ad officium impellitur, ea non est virtus sed fallax imitatio simulatioque virtutis.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35436]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I went to the copy machine, the medal went to the copy machine, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs 10:11).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare. People are telling us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare. People are telling us they can't afford to get the care they need, because Medicare supplemental policies are too expensive, medications are too expensive, and they are having trouble with special needs if they are in HMOs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a correlation between top-scoring laws and the quality of the charter environment in that state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37536]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a correlation between top-scoring laws and the quality of the charter environment in that state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28025]]></link><description><![CDATA[I swear, if you existed I'd divorce you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, notthe hated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21159]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, notthe hated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50335]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mediocrity can talk; but it is for genius to observe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are still very concerned about Katrina itself and also about the gasoline and other refined products increases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40735]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are still very concerned about Katrina itself and also about the gasoline and other refined products increases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883  When the eyes of the soul looking out meet the eyes of God looking in, heaven has begun right here on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only justifiable purpose of political institutions is to ensure the unhindered development of the individual.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation is the laboratory and workshop of the student.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suspense is worse than disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12368]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suspense is worse than disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I only drink wine, and it's a bit early for that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I only drink wine, and it's a bit early for that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not going to be politically acceptable to most people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32778]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not going to be politically acceptable to most people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute,  From the centre all round ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54461]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute,  From the centre all round to the sea,   I am lord of the fowl and the brute.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can deny that the New Testament has variety as well as unity. It is the variety which gives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8043]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can deny that the New Testament has variety as well as unity. It is the variety which gives interest to the unity. What is it in which these people, differing as widely as they do, are vitally and fundamentally at one, so that through all their differences they form a brotherhood and are conscious of an indissolubale spiritual bond? There can be no doubt that that which unites them is a common relation to Christ -- a common faith in Him, involving religious convictions about Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turn your wounds into wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8488]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turn your wounds into wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The concern is that the resulting increase in traffic counts on Howard Orchard Road will force the county to fund ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33730]]></link><description><![CDATA[The concern is that the resulting increase in traffic counts on Howard Orchard Road will force the county to fund improvements to a roadway that has not been on any kind of planned improvement list.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I called out to her and said to bring Jasmine back and I would hold onto her, ... She said ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41438]]></link><description><![CDATA[I called out to her and said to bring Jasmine back and I would hold onto her, ... She said her daughter had just got off the bus, she was going to go get her and come right back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41438</guid></item></channel></rss>