<?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[His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain;  The long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46457]]></link><description><![CDATA[His house was known to all the vagrant train, He chid their wanderings but reliev'd their pain;  The long remembered beggar was his guest,   Whose beard descending swept his aged breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  Jesus evidently felt deeply the emptiness and futility of much... religious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, Martyr, c.155  Jesus evidently felt deeply the emptiness and futility of much... religious talk. He was interested only in those emotions and professions which could get themselves translated into character and action. Words have always been the bane of religion as well as its vehicle. Religious emotion has enormous motive force, but it is the easiest thing in the world for it to sizzle away in high professions and wordy prayers. In that case, it is a substitute and counterfeit, and a damage to the Reign of God among men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58863]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66354]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23578]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45378]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14846]]></link><description><![CDATA[There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? Lord, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea thatpossesses the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22671]]></link><description><![CDATA[A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea thatpossesses the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36441]]></link><description><![CDATA[An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreading that climax of all earthly ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48731]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreading that climax of all earthly ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56804]]></link><description><![CDATA[The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56804</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30410]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television networks don't deliver the audiences that they did a year ago or five years ago and yet (ad) prices continue to go up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18794]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state of severance of union with sorrow is known by the name of yoga. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62519]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state of severance of union with sorrow is known by the name of yoga.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17790]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we keep building mixed-use projects that have retail on the ground floor, every new chunk of retail takes away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36386]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we keep building mixed-use projects that have retail on the ground floor, every new chunk of retail takes away from the demand potential that exists for City Center. We have to cut that out because if you go that way, it's like death by a thousand cuts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36386</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas! my child, where is the Pen That can do justice to the Hen?  Like Royalty, she goes her way,   Laying foundations every day,    Though not for Public Buildings, yet     For Custard, Cake and Omelette.      Of if too old for such a use       They have their fling at some abuse,        As when to censure Plays Unfit         Upon the stage they make a Hit          Or at elections seal the Fate           Of an Obnoxious Candidate.            No wonder, Child, we prize the Hen,             Whose Egg is Mightier than the Pen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night was our friend, our leader was Despair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night was our friend, our leader was Despair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64361]]></link><description><![CDATA['Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, Let us be merciful as well as just.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The now wherein God made the first man, and the now wherein the last man disappears, and the now I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The now wherein God made the first man, and the now wherein the last man disappears, and the now I am speaking in, all are the same in God, where this is but the now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21479]]></link><description><![CDATA[Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13810]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54091]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. [Fr., Je ne te quitterai point que je ne t'aie vu pendu.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64945]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I open many books, or most leading women's magazines, or see almost all TV shows, I don't find myself at all. I am completely anonymous. My value system is not there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't seem like anything, but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a doctor in town, and the secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited, and waited, and waited, and waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor, and the doctor put some salve on it? You call that dull?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5255]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even when the wound is healed the scar remains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22409]]></link><description><![CDATA[You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62067]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Adam dolve, and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem  None rebels except subjects? The prince who   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem  None rebels except subjects? The prince who   Neglects or violates his trust is more    A brigand than the robber-chief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people believe that humility is the opposite of pride, when, in fact, it is a point of equilibrium. The opposite of pride is actually a lack of self esteem. A humble person is totally different from a person who cannot recognize and appreciate himself as part of this worlds marvels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The events prove that Israel was neither a neighbor nor a peace partner. It is no more than an enemy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The events prove that Israel was neither a neighbor nor a peace partner. It is no more than an enemy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For us, murder is once for all forbidden... It makes no difference whether one take away the life once born, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6698]]></link><description><![CDATA[For us, murder is once for all forbidden... It makes no difference whether one take away the life once born, or destroy it as it comes to birth. He is a man, who is to be a man; the fruit is always present in the seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look back, and smile on perils past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look back, and smile on perils past.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50543]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Modesty, who, when she goes, Is gone for ever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52637]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hee that stumbles and falles not, mends his pace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16985]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3378]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Morals and manners will rise or decline with our attention to grammar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well! Evil to some is always good to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well! Evil to some is always good to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65887]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It fooled him, how many other people are getting fooled? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35082]]></link><description><![CDATA[It fooled him, how many other people are getting fooled?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Open-mindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton suggests, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4214]]></link><description><![CDATA[If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4214</guid></item></channel></rss>