<?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[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19488]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19488</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3092]]></link><description><![CDATA[I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He only does it to annoy you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50448]]></link><description><![CDATA[He only does it to annoy you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop of Chichester, Ecumenist, Peacemaker, 1958   There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Christians], at their best, know that often they don't know. They do not have all the answers. They do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7694]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Christians], at their best, know that often they don't know. They do not have all the answers. They do not have God in their pocket. We cannot answer every question that any bright boy in the back row might ask. We have only light enough to walk by.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defining night by darkness, death by dust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Defining night by darkness, death by dust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28126]]></link><description><![CDATA[to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give no time to finding fault of criticism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10751]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give no time to finding fault of criticism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little bit at which you persevere is better than a lot at which you are bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36722]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little bit at which you persevere is better than a lot at which you are bored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty is the step-mother of genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47903]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty is the step-mother of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65202]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65202</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60971]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else, and it'll become like a wildfire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt toshut our eyes against a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21333]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt toshut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of thesiren, till she transforms us into beasts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Demons wait at crossroads attempting to influence our decisions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48940]]></link><description><![CDATA[We start from the Mother's Arms and we run to the Dustshovel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24974]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's dance and sing and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's dance and sing and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50389]]></link><description><![CDATA[When your throat is parched with thirst, do you desire a cup of gold?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52346]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and magic have a great deal in common. They enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice. -Nora Roberts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a pretty mocking of the life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54714]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a pretty mocking of the life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66897]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66897</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You reign, I rule. That is the Japanese way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29710]]></link><description><![CDATA[You reign, I rule. That is the Japanese way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amongst so many borrowed things, am glad if I can steal one, disguising and altering it for some new service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43414]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ideal museum show would be a mating of Brideshead Revisited with House & Garden. provoking intense and pleasurable nostalgia for a past that none of its audience has had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21534]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually become wealthy clearly reveals that their "Luck" arouse from the accidental dedication they had to an area they enjoyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17939]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46814]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd  The ploughboy's whistle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54586]]></link><description><![CDATA[How still the morning of the hallow'd day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush'd  The ploughboy's whistle, and the milkmaid's song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. [Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hazard not your wealth on a poor man's advice. [Sp., No adventures mucho tu riqueza.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59390]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to our beloved George Washington, the Joshua of America, who commanded the sun and the moon to sand still--and they obeyed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59390</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20947]]></link><description><![CDATA[When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After about 35 laps, the tires and brakes started to go. We're lucky we lasted as long as we did. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36092]]></link><description><![CDATA[After about 35 laps, the tires and brakes started to go. We're lucky we lasted as long as we did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even more significant of the inherent weakness of the collectivist theories is the extraordinary paradox that from the assertion that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even more significant of the inherent weakness of the collectivist theories is the extraordinary paradox that from the assertion that society is in some sense more than merely the aggregate of all individuals their adherents regularly pass by a sort of intellectual somersault to the thesis that in order that the coherence of this larger entity be safeguarded it must be subjected to conscious control, that is, to the control of what in the last resort must be an individual mind. It thus comes about that in practice it is regularly the theoretical collectivist who extols individual reason and demands that all forces of society be made subject to the direction of a single mastermind, while it is the individualist who recognizes the limitations of the powers of individual reason and consequently advocates freedom as a means for the fullest development of the powers of the interindividual process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17800]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell:.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18720]]></link><description><![CDATA[All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin. Anon -Lord Byron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were looking for things to do in the downtown area that would be inexpensive but have a substantial impact, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32389]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were looking for things to do in the downtown area that would be inexpensive but have a substantial impact,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24568]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61982]]></link><description><![CDATA[The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be,  The things that might have been, and yet were not,   The fading twilight of joys departed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get money; by just means. if you can; if not, still get money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A jade eates as much as a good horse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49041]]></link><description><![CDATA[A jade eates as much as a good horse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57260]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruction from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16816]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Light gains make heavy purses. 'Tis good to be merry and wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57014]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me- has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57014</guid></item></channel></rss>