<?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[Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59423]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52525]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book.   - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think under Jacques, we were very much a team that played extremely well defensively, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32574]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think under Jacques, we were very much a team that played extremely well defensively,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10955]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil.  Shame and woe to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42964]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money was made, not to command our will, But all out lawful pleasure to fulfil.  Shame and woe to use, if we our wealth obey;   The horse doth with the horseman run away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They think incentives will be leveling off. With all the new models being launched in next 12 to 18 months, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30627]]></link><description><![CDATA[They think incentives will be leveling off. With all the new models being launched in next 12 to 18 months, they will not need incentives to spur sales.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did th' adviser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/773]]></link><description><![CDATA[And may you better reck the rede, Than ever did th' adviser.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54572]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33193]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4451]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56996]]></link><description><![CDATA[This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9027]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A song of hate is a song of Hell; Some there be who sing it well.  Let them sing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57213]]></link><description><![CDATA[A song of hate is a song of Hell; Some there be who sing it well.  Let them sing it loud and long,   We lift our hearts in a loftier song:    We life our hearts to Heaven above,     Singing the glory of her we love,      England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a penalty for trying to knockdown a cockpit door, but it's the peoplewho try to go from coach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43011]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a penalty for trying to knockdown a cockpit door, but it's the peoplewho try to go from coach to 1st classthey really beat up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10952]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5139]]></link><description><![CDATA[The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there;  And 'twill be found, upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8673]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there;  And 'twill be found, upon examination,   The latter has the largest congregation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41050]]></link><description><![CDATA[The function of genius is to furnish cretins with ideas twenty years later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22710]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling toimprove themselves; they therefore remain bound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I called them because my car was taken without my permission. My baby was inside of my car and they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40246]]></link><description><![CDATA[I called them because my car was taken without my permission. My baby was inside of my car and they turned it around and put it on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ascension  Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788  The grand reason why the miraclous gifts were so soon withdrawn was not only that faith and holiness were well-nigh lost, but that dry, formal, orthodox men began then to ridicule whatever gifts they had not themselves and to cry them all [down] as evil madness or imposture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fascism is a religious concept ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fascism is a religious concept]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better. -King Henry IV. Part I. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food for powder, food for powder; they 'll fill a pit as well as better. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  Is a mediator between the eternal spirit and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601  Is a mediator between the eternal spirit and the finite an unreality, an intrusion? The mystic soul may impatiently think so, but the moral soul finds such mediation the way to reality; and the mystic experience is not quite trustworthy about reality. The pagan gods had no mediators, because they were not real or good gods; but the living God has a living Revealer. To know the living God is to know Christ; to know Christ is to know the living God. We do not know God by Christ but in Him. We find God when we find Christ; and in Christ alone we know and share his final purpose. Our last knowledge is not the contact of our person with a thing or a thought; it is intercourse of person and person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign. [Fr., Qui ne sait dissimuler, ne sait regner.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54482]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows not how to dissimulate, can not reign. [Fr., Qui ne sait dissimuler, ne sait regner.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54482</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63615]]></link><description><![CDATA[Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leadership is the challenge to be something more than average.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[just a fun thing for me to do with a good friend who has meant a great deal for me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30352]]></link><description><![CDATA[just a fun thing for me to do with a good friend who has meant a great deal for me and my family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1132]]></link><description><![CDATA[For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[States are great engines moving slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17976]]></link><description><![CDATA[States are great engines moving slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him--therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10516]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fate can bring two people together...but fate can also pull them apart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fate can bring two people together...but fate can also pull them apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63513]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a little wife well will'd, are great riches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61370]]></link><description><![CDATA[A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a little wife well will'd, are great riches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. [Lat., Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. [Lat., Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27865]]></link><description><![CDATA[Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young children and chickens would ever be eating. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2911]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young children and chickens would ever be eating.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Communism possesses a language which every people can understand--its elements are hunger, envy, and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9095]]></link><description><![CDATA[Communism possesses a language which every people can understand--its elements are hunger, envy, and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29884</guid></item></channel></rss>