<?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[He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49364]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/539]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44181]]></link><description><![CDATA[In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man,  History and tradition are explored in vain ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defender of his country--the founder of liberty, The friend of man,  History and tradition are explored in vain   For a parallel to his character.    In the annals of modern greatness     He stands alone;      And the noblest names of antiquity       Lose their lustre in his presence.        Born the benefactor of mankind,         He united all the greatness necessary          To an illustrious career.           Nature made him great,            He made himself virtuous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concerning perfect blessed ness which consists in a vision of God. [Lat., Circa beatitudinem perfectam, quae in Dei visione consistit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concerning perfect blessed ness which consists in a vision of God. [Lat., Circa beatitudinem perfectam, quae in Dei visione consistit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a two-fold mission: To stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure just and equal treatment ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39498]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a two-fold mission: To stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure just and equal treatment to all citizens alike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43900]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can say I was associated with the success of those other films that debuted at #1, I was in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can say I was associated with the success of those other films that debuted at #1, I was in it as number 3 guy or number 4 guy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10451]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din!  But 'twas not love which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61923]]></link><description><![CDATA[On one she smiles, and he was blest; She smiles elsewhere--we make a din!  But 'twas not love which heaved her breast,   Fair child!--it was the bliss within.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45489]]></link><description><![CDATA[You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21449]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19868]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19868</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.   - John Ruskin, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48202]]></link><description><![CDATA[In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.   - John Ruskin,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force: Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15722]]></link><description><![CDATA[What pays under capitalism is satisfying the common man, the customer. The more people you satisfy, the better for you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They played a triangle-and-two on us. They matched up Corrie and Rachel and left our posts open. Corrie, Rachel and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32104]]></link><description><![CDATA[They played a triangle-and-two on us. They matched up Corrie and Rachel and left our posts open. Corrie, Rachel and Morgan were able to get the ball to our post players and we beat them inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted real kids. I didn't want Hollywood kids doing weird accents. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29230]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted real kids. I didn't want Hollywood kids doing weird accents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When gas prices go up, people turn their thermostats down. The higher prices affect us, too. It's been a hard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41212]]></link><description><![CDATA[When gas prices go up, people turn their thermostats down. The higher prices affect us, too. It's been a hard winter on us financially.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't try to fix the students, fix ourselves first. The good teacher makes the poor student good and the good student superior. When our students fail, we, as teachers, too, have failed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15524]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15524</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no transforming of darkness into light andof apathy into movement without emotion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22168]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no transforming of darkness into light andof apathy into movement without emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51127]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a bad harvest sow again. [Yield not to difficulties.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let my hand, This hand, lie in your own--my own true friend;  Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16759]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let my hand, This hand, lie in your own--my own true friend;  Aprile! Hand-in-hand with you, Aprile!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've felt better with the way I was just getting the puck up ice, playing smart defensively and playing well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29244]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've felt better with the way I was just getting the puck up ice, playing smart defensively and playing well on the PK (penalty kill). I'm just trying to carry that into these last games of the season here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15516]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you  His absolute 'shall'? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you  His absolute 'shall'?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're struggling a little bit with some injuries but we've got great depth and we feel good about that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37539]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're struggling a little bit with some injuries but we've got great depth and we feel good about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actions of the last age are like almanacs of the last year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are . . . robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56541]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are . . . robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17649]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   We must be willing to accept the bitter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921   We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and others rich in the grace of God. It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves. We cannot suffer well unless we see Christ everywhere, both in suffering and in the charity of those who come to the aid of our affliction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16825]]></link><description><![CDATA[The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39356]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right is its own defense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right is its own defense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of vast circumference and gloom profound, This solitary Tree! A living thing  Produced too slowly ever to decay;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of vast circumference and gloom profound, This solitary Tree! A living thing  Produced too slowly ever to decay;   Of form and aspect too magnificent    To be destroyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10332]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24610]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53671]]></link><description><![CDATA[The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,  Stays till we call, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53106]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest,  Stays till we call, and then not often near.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7466]]></link><description><![CDATA[We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see; and the only unanswerable argument for Christianity is a Christian life. No man can disregard a religion and a faith and a power which is able to make bad men good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[worked together as effectively as the terrorists do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40149]]></link><description><![CDATA[worked together as effectively as the terrorists do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40149</guid></item></channel></rss>