<?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[I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4930]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23458]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as much and for as long a time as they have used for inventing their lies - that is, longer than two thousand years]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23699]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as we were done with it, we were beyond it. We've been dying to write this record. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40115]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as we were done with it, we were beyond it. We've been dying to write this record.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans anywhere and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humans can learn to like anything, that's why we are such a successful species. You can drop humans anywhere and they'll thrive--only the rat does as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winged mimic of the woods! thou motley fool! Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe?  Thine ever-ready notes of ridicule ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winged mimic of the woods! thou motley fool! Who shall thy gay buffoonery describe?  Thine ever-ready notes of ridicule   Pursue thy fellows still with jest and jibe:    Wit, sophist, songster, Yorick of thy tribe;     Thou sportive satirist of Nature's school;      To thee the palm of scoffing we ascribe,       Arch-mocker and mad abbot of misrule!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61736]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61736</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14308]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we call evil is simply ignorance bumping its head in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17403]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43294]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mountains appear more lofty, the nearer they are approached, but great men resemble them not in this particular]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42222]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is - last stage of all When we are frozen up within, and quite The phantom of ourselves To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42222</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We slowed down the offense and concentrated on defense for a while. This will either tire out the team on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31204]]></link><description><![CDATA[We slowed down the offense and concentrated on defense for a while. This will either tire out the team on offense, or defense. Unfortunately, it wore us down a bit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. -Thich Nhat Hanh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our own life is the instrument with which we experiment with the truth. -Thich Nhat Hanh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is nearly 100% of the ministry's procurement budget that has gone [missing], ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28942]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is nearly 100% of the ministry's procurement budget that has gone [missing],]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teachers teach more by what they are than by what they say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm disappointed with the results. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm disappointed with the results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/545]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also his desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/545</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18442]]></link><description><![CDATA[My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to ask for directions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51577]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sly piece of good luck, which nobody knows of is delightful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51577</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1065]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5316]]></link><description><![CDATA[What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5316</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus conscience does make cowards of us all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman doesn't need a perfect man. she just needs a special guy who can accept her the way she ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62878]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman doesn't need a perfect man. she just needs a special guy who can accept her the way she is and make her feel special.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66004]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap  Of murky buildings: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57182]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap  Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,--   Nature's observatory--whence the dell,    In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell,     May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep      'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap       Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    (1) God's children ought to walk in constant amazement of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326    (1) God's children ought to walk in constant amazement of spirit as to God, His nature, and works. (2) The glorifying of God is the great work of God's children. (3) Delightful privacy with God argues strong affection. (4) Frequent prayer an argument of much of God's Spirit; true prayer is the pouring out of the heart to God; God's children are most in private with God; the prayers of God's people most respect spiritual mercies; God's people wait for and rest in God's answer. (5) God's people are sensible of their unworthiness. (6) God Himself is regarded as the portion of His people. (7) Ready obedience to God. (8) The patience of God's children under God's hand. (9) The mournful confession of God's people. (10) God's people long after God in an open profession of His ordinances. (11) Their hearts are ready and prepared. (12) God's people's sense of their own insufficiencies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Familiar acts are beautiful through love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15150]]></link><description><![CDATA[Familiar acts are beautiful through love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18482]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53970]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a new face courage puts on everything! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10333]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a new face courage puts on everything!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Advertising isn't a science. It's persuasion. And persuasion is an art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56740]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the consequences of such notions as "entitlements" is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently just for being nice enough to grace us with their presence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56740</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak, which, dead, commands the flood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the bright day that brings forth the adder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51285]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the bright day that brings forth the adder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56898]]></link><description><![CDATA[Science is facts. Just as houses are made of stones, so science is made of facts. But a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rest is for the weary, sleep is for the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st  But keep that count'nance still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44468]]></link><description><![CDATA[If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st  But keep that count'nance still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now, as long as the prices are steady and people have their jobs, I think they will do what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now, as long as the prices are steady and people have their jobs, I think they will do what is needed to make their payments and avoid the foreclosure process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64467]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59515]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60562]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up -- sociologically, politically, and creatively -- I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt, yet start at shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46998]]></link><description><![CDATA[The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46998</guid></item></channel></rss>