<?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[Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42838]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will directs the tongue or the hand to act, and the evil word is spoken, or the evil deed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8185]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will directs the tongue or the hand to act, and the evil word is spoken, or the evil deed done. Every time we sin, it is the whole of us that sins, and not just a part. The body is only the instrument of the mind and the will. All that God made, including the body with all its desires and instincts, is good in itself. But it has to be kept under control and used in the right way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Basically, it's too close to call. I had a lot of surprises last night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Basically, it's too close to call. I had a lot of surprises last night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make fair agreements and stick to them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make fair agreements and stick to them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14431]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57463]]></link><description><![CDATA[If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/131]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65915]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20467]]></link><description><![CDATA[Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20467</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forget those things that aren't worth remembering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the twilight of morning to climb to the top of the mountain,-- Thee to salute, kindly star, earliest herald ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59920]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the twilight of morning to climb to the top of the mountain,-- Thee to salute, kindly star, earliest herald of day,--  And to await, with impatience, the gaze of the ruler of heaven.--   Youthful delight, oh, how oft lur'st thou me out in the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56200]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cobbler, . . . produced several new grins of his own invention, having been used to cut faces for many years together over his last.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely thanpeople across them.on C Span. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Borders are semiporous. Capital flows more freely thanpeople across them.on C Span.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sun shineth upon the dunghill and is not corrupted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58297]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sun shineth upon the dunghill and is not corrupted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61157]]></link><description><![CDATA[The final war will be between Pavlov's dog and Schoedinger's Cat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The priest he merry is, and blithe Three-quarters of a year,  But oh! it cuts him like a scythe ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48080]]></link><description><![CDATA[The priest he merry is, and blithe Three-quarters of a year,  But oh! it cuts him like a scythe   When tithing time draws near.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43851]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A "should" is a "have to" with no teeth; it is deadenergy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22599]]></link><description><![CDATA[A "should" is a "have to" with no teeth; it is deadenergy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14562]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who lets time rule him will live the life of a slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24505]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hidden evils are most dreaded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hidden evils are most dreaded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9771]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love a hand that meets my own with a grasp that causes some sensation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65472]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you don't see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35781]]></link><description><![CDATA[I truly believe that we can overcome any hurdle that lies before us and create the life we want to live. I have seen it happen time and time again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;   And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22923]]></link><description><![CDATA[What does drunkenness accomplish? It discloses secrets, it ratifies hopes, and urges even the unarmed to battle. [Lat., Quid non ebrietas designat? Operta recludit;  Spes jubet esse ratas; in praelia trudit inermem.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60285]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1721]]></link><description><![CDATA[So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What was once thought can never be unthought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/938]]></link><description><![CDATA[What was once thought can never be unthought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44928]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44928</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12148]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is necessary to point out that our responsibility is a relative one only, for as we think of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7598]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is necessary to point out that our responsibility is a relative one only, for as we think of the world-wide disintegration of the human family, the prospect before us could easily fill us with alarm and despondency, if we were not sure first of the absolute sovereignty of God who (I speak reverently) knows what He is doing in conducting this enormous experiment that we call life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I could trace my origins to Judas Maccabaeus or King David, that would not add one inch to my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36749]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I could trace my origins to Judas Maccabaeus or King David, that would not add one inch to my stature. It may well be that many East European Jews are descended from Khazars, I may be one of them. Who knows? And who cares?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A son should inherit his father's money - not his religion; he may be too lazy to build upon a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57234]]></link><description><![CDATA[A son should inherit his father's money - not his religion; he may be too lazy to build upon a new fortune but never too slow to catch up with a new creed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It involves a lot of monitoring. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40827]]></link><description><![CDATA[It involves a lot of monitoring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't remember what you can infer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26973]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't remember what you can infer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing I can't stand is discomfort. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall not be put out until what you about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25044]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall not be put out until what you about to write is finished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gentle Spring!--in sunshine clad, Well dost thou thy power display!  For Winter maketh the light heart said,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gentle Spring!--in sunshine clad, Well dost thou thy power display!  For Winter maketh the light heart said,   And thou,--makest the sad heart gay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3369]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue,  Like to the wall that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19132]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue,  Like to the wall that circles it about.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61530]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61530</guid></item></channel></rss>