<?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[The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions of an interior voice but will not listen to other men. He identifies the will of God with anything that makes him feel, within his own heart, a big, warm, sweet interior glow. The sweeter and the warmer the feeling is, the more he is convinced of his own infallibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe. You see someone on the street and essentially what you notice about them is the flaw.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please take the next step to release my husband and return his children's lives to normal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40729]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please take the next step to release my husband and return his children's lives to normal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a bit of a trade-off. It's exciting to see the new ruins and get that information, but at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37201]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a bit of a trade-off. It's exciting to see the new ruins and get that information, but at the same time, fire can destroy these sites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22570]]></link><description><![CDATA[A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23520]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oddly, the hottest heterosexual women can engage in public lesbian activity, or girl-girl activity, without threatening their heterosexual identity at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34428]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oddly, the hottest heterosexual women can engage in public lesbian activity, or girl-girl activity, without threatening their heterosexual identity at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows how to be poor knows everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47896]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows how to be poor knows everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a tough problem, and there is no simple answer or smoking gun. More likely, there are multiple causes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31902]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a tough problem, and there is no simple answer or smoking gun. More likely, there are multiple causes, and they may vary from species to species.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christ is our Passover! And we will keep the feast  With the new leaven,   The bread of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ is our Passover! And we will keep the feast  With the new leaven,   The bread of heaven:    All welcome, even the least!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65304]]></link><description><![CDATA[Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All those must such delights expect to share, Who for their friend think fit to take a bear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48976]]></link><description><![CDATA[All those must such delights expect to share, Who for their friend think fit to take a bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spirits run riot in youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50778]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spirits run riot in youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Christmas gift suggestions:To your enemy, forgiveness.To an opponent, tolerance.To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christmas gift suggestions:To your enemy, forgiveness.To an opponent, tolerance.To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16660]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free soil, free men, free speech, Fremont.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16660</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,  Atoms or systems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,  Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd,   And now a bubble burst, and now a world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good;  "Let him drink port!" the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good;  "Let him drink port!" the English statesman cried:   He drank the poison, and his spirit died.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[English attitudes to the respective forms of the game offer a clue as to why England continue to fare so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42552]]></link><description><![CDATA[English attitudes to the respective forms of the game offer a clue as to why England continue to fare so badly at One-day cricket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17873]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Magic has not appealed to a younger market for a long time. What I'm trying to do is to appeal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Magic has not appealed to a younger market for a long time. What I'm trying to do is to appeal to the younger fans, as well as the older ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57937]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose: therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5394]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest exercise of charity is charity towards the uncharitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient. [It., Bello e il rossore, ma e incommodo qualche volta.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient. [It., Bello e il rossore, ma e incommodo qualche volta.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44711]]></link><description><![CDATA[The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12979]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. Whenthe judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is little Effie's head. Her brains are made of gingerbread. Whenthe judgement day comes, God will find six crumbs. Stooping by the coffinlid waiting for something to rise as the something's always did. ImagineHis surprise, bellowing above the general noise, "Where is Effie? Shewas dead." Back to God in a tiny voice: "My name's Maybe."The first crumb said. The number two crumb picked up the song."Might, I'm called. I've done no wrong." Cried the third crumb,"I am Should. Here's our little brother Could and my big sisterWould. Don't punish us for we've been good." And the last crumb, withsome shame, whispered unto God, "My name is Must and with the others,we've been Effie, who isn't alive and never was. Cross the threshold haveno dread. Lift the sheet back in this way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rashness is the companion of youth, prudence of old age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh man. That picture was so beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh man. That picture was so beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10806]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He can do most who has most power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50861]]></link><description><![CDATA[He can do most who has most power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34410]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43919]]></link><description><![CDATA[Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These figures come at a difficult time, with regional and local newspapers subject to the same market forces as other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41240]]></link><description><![CDATA[These figures come at a difficult time, with regional and local newspapers subject to the same market forces as other consumer products and media. Despite this, a number of regional newspapers have seen some very impressive results due to investment, audience research and focusing on what their readers want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not cease to drink beer, to eat, to intoxicate thyself, to make love, and to celebrate the good days. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3890]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not cease to drink beer, to eat, to intoxicate thyself, to make love, and to celebrate the good days.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The branded industry is losing drugs from patent and the generic industry is circling like buzzards to pick them up. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31166]]></link><description><![CDATA[The branded industry is losing drugs from patent and the generic industry is circling like buzzards to pick them up. It's wonderful for the generic pharmaceutical industry. There's more food on the plate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For five years I worked at the [Commerce Department] and did econometric modeling, and you could never get these numbers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40739]]></link><description><![CDATA[For five years I worked at the [Commerce Department] and did econometric modeling, and you could never get these numbers to load into consumption numbers. They're not leading indicators or coincident indicators. They don't tell you a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Symbologists often remarked that France-a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short-could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are entirely satisfied that Stephen's parachute was deliberately tampered with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32060]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are entirely satisfied that Stephen's parachute was deliberately tampered with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please do not treat Indonesia as some satellite country that America can push around. Because if America is seen as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please do not treat Indonesia as some satellite country that America can push around. Because if America is seen as too arrogant and too hectoring and beats Indonesia on the head, then I think there's going to be this nationalistic backlash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word  As--fail! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14912]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the lexicon of youth, which Fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word  As--fail!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14912</guid></item></channel></rss>