<?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[Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60154]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though this is late in an election year, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where liberty is, there is my country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where liberty is, there is my country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician,  Cur'd yesterday of my disease,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26711]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician,  Cur'd yesterday of my disease,   I died last night of my physician.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17502]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17502</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deafe gaines the injury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49828]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deafe gaines the injury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49828</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50881]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sheer folly to take unwilling hounds to the chase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54688]]></link><description><![CDATA[What I lack in decorum, I make up for with an absence of tact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27796]]></link><description><![CDATA[If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44087]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8841]]></link><description><![CDATA[Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are trying to get the other eight people also freed soon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40272]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are trying to get the other eight people also freed soon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This shows that our law enforcers have yet to become serious about fighting corruption. In contrast, the people seem to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37479]]></link><description><![CDATA[This shows that our law enforcers have yet to become serious about fighting corruption. In contrast, the people seem to have more enthusiasm to bring graft cases out into the open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We knew what we had to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37367]]></link><description><![CDATA[We knew what we had to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37367</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[There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56627]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I have loved them, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be  Borne, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44882]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I have loved them, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be  Borne, like shy bubbles, onward; from a boy   I wanton'd with thy breakers.    . . . .     And laid my hand upon thy mane--as I do here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24459]]></link><description><![CDATA[A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis the merry nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates  With fast thick warble his delicious notes,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44542]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis the merry nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates  With fast thick warble his delicious notes,   As he were fearful that an April night    Would be too short for him to utter forth     His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul      Of all its music!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And there is a worm in the lonely wood, That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,  And makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51688]]></link><description><![CDATA[And there is a worm in the lonely wood, That pierces the liver and blackens the blood,  And makes it a sorrow to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53854]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65711]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we would not have subdued him when we did, the incident could have been much worse, or even fatal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41688]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we would not have subdued him when we did, the incident could have been much worse, or even fatal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66612]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12454]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58892]]></link><description><![CDATA[But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18550]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fixity of habit is generally in direct proportion to its absurdity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody is grappling with this. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody is grappling with this.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But me no buts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48965]]></link><description><![CDATA[But me no buts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet each man kills the thing he loves... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet each man kills the thing he loves...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43434]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2576]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is very difficult for me to express. I have a tremendous amount of anger but I like to save it ... for my loved ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60844]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have vision it affects your attitude. Your attitude is optimistic rather than pessimistic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[President Bush is taking the entire month of August off. Bush said today he thinks it is important for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48142]]></link><description><![CDATA[President Bush is taking the entire month of August off. Bush said today he thinks it is important for a president to spend time away from Washington. Or at least that's what Dick Cheney told him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zinzendorf and the Moravians proved that an entire communion of believers (call it a church or a denomination, if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zinzendorf and the Moravians proved that an entire communion of believers (call it a church or a denomination, if you will) can find reason for being solely on the basis of missions to the lost and unreached multitudes of the world. Their fellowship existed solely to send out laborers into the harvest. Everyone and everything pointed to that missionary purpose. For them, missions was not an adjunct to church life, it was church life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools grow without watering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16191]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools grow without watering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Retort Courteous;… the Quip Modest;… the Reply Churlish;… the Reproof Valiant;… the Countercheck Quarrelsome;… the Lie with Circumstance;… the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55695]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Retort Courteous;… the Quip Modest;… the Reply Churlish;… the Reproof Valiant;… the Countercheck Quarrelsome;… the Lie with Circumstance;… the Lie Direct. -As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13623]]></link><description><![CDATA[We want the spirit of America to be efficient; we want American character to be efficient; we want American character to display itself in what I may, perhaps, be allowed to call spiritual efficiency--clear disinterested thinking and fearless action along the right lines of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But if We have such another victory, we are undone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60592]]></link><description><![CDATA[But if We have such another victory, we are undone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Betrayal is the only truth that sticks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get out in front -- you stay out in front. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57505]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get out in front -- you stay out in front.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57505</guid></item></channel></rss>