<?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[What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51216]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1669]]></link><description><![CDATA[As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not ladies. The term connotates females who are simultaneously put on a pedestal and patronized.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8150]]></link><description><![CDATA[To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going on one's knees and thanking Him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep your sense of humor. There's enough stress in the rest of your life to let bad shots ruin a game you're supposed to enjoy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -A Midsummer Night's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55512]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honor is the moral conscience of the great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14494]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honor is the moral conscience of the great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62570]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life went a-Maying With Nature, Hope, and Poesy;  When I was young!   When I was young?--Ah, woful when!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every one comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a bridge. Either you are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every one comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a bridge. Either you are leading men to God or you are driving them away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you don't know can't hurt you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51044]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you don't know can't hurt you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39594]]></link><description><![CDATA[First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25695]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any boy can get a girl, it takes a man to keep one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never worry about action, but only about inaction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16303]]></link><description><![CDATA[I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everybody basically gets behind Wood. You have to stay with him. The pack separated pretty early. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everybody basically gets behind Wood. You have to stay with him. The pack separated pretty early.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Older people are seen basically as doddery but dear, and young people perhaps as clever but callous. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Older people are seen basically as doddery but dear, and young people perhaps as clever but callous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But thou know'st this, 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59975]]></link><description><![CDATA[But thou know'st this, 'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her voice was like the voice the stars Had when they sang together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her voice was like the voice the stars Had when they sang together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This has been the first real test since FEMA (U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency) was put under Homeland Security and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41516]]></link><description><![CDATA[This has been the first real test since FEMA (U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency) was put under Homeland Security and obviously it didn't work and I think they will want to reexamine how they respond to disasters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22202]]></link><description><![CDATA[The question is not whether the system works, but whether we like the way it works. Just because something works doesn't mean it is desirable. Concentration camps work, if your purpose is to enslave people. Stealing works, if all you care about is money. Lying works, if you don't give a damn about your personal integrity. Literally anything, no matter how monstrously immoral will work, depending on your desires and how you define the term work,.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59085]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is why we will end the hunger strike, but it should not be forgotten that it was a warning ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28436]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is why we will end the hunger strike, but it should not be forgotten that it was a warning to those who do not abide by law and justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62929]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent good, bears within itself a powerful and perpetual antidote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To write beautifully, is to inscribe thoughts on paper in a flowing, imaginative way. With aspirations to intrigue and inform; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62396]]></link><description><![CDATA[To write beautifully, is to inscribe thoughts on paper in a flowing, imaginative way. With aspirations to intrigue and inform; its truly an art on paper, filled with emotion and thought in a smooth aesthetically brilliant way...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be hard to blame you for having trouble taking much of what is said in Washington seriously. You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42830]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be hard to blame you for having trouble taking much of what is said in Washington seriously. You heard about the Medicare actuary who was forced to fudge the numbers and lie to Congress to keep his job. You heard the falsified numbers in Iraq on everything from the cost of the war to the number of trained Iraqi troops to a slam dunk case for weapons of mass destruction. You heard about the administration sponsored fake newscasts to mislead people all across America.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to think of it as a type of Thanksgiving, reestablishing that connection on a human level. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40988]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to think of it as a type of Thanksgiving, reestablishing that connection on a human level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported by many other arguments, that the universe was certainly not created for us by divine power: it is so full of imperfectio]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42989</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[A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Blessington. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27225]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's head is always influenced by heart; but a man's heart by his head. -Lady Marguerite Blessington.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One's outlook is a part of his virtue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60761]]></link><description><![CDATA[One's outlook is a part of his virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know. "Only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43644]]></link><description><![CDATA["Brooks of Sheffield": "'Somebody's sharp.' 'Who is?'" asked the gentleman, laughing. I looked up quickly, being curious to know. "Only Brooks of Sheffield," said Mr. Murdstone. I was glad to find it was only Brooks of Sheffield; for at first I really thought that it was I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It'd be great to go 3-0. We have to contain their quarterback. He's quick and likes to run the option. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36901]]></link><description><![CDATA[It'd be great to go 3-0. We have to contain their quarterback. He's quick and likes to run the option.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14826]]></link><description><![CDATA[The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrate the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15612]]></link><description><![CDATA[A play is fiction and fiction is fact distilled into truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27046]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4091]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wrong always, everywhere and for everyone to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked (Proverbs 10:11).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2157]]></link><description><![CDATA[In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in, or you're out. There is not such a thing as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63110]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two options regarding commitment. You're either in, or you're out. There is not such a thing as life in between.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What garlic is to food, insanity is to art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28090]]></link><description><![CDATA[What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22993]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,  Or as the heresies ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13272]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings,  Or as the heresies that men do leave   Are hated most of those they did deceive,    So thou, my surfeit and my heresy,     Of all be hated, but the most of me!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47842]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47842</guid></item></channel></rss>