<?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[Well, there was one fellow that wanted to give me a good swift kick in the rear end for not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, there was one fellow that wanted to give me a good swift kick in the rear end for not getting our work done,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46720]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47168]]></link><description><![CDATA[...economic history is a long record of government policies that failed because they were designed with a bold disregard for the laws of economics.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. [Lat., Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more silly than silly laughter. [Lat., Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without an element of the obscene there can be no true and deep aesthetic or moral conception of life...It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene they could never have dared to be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46687]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Athenians, what toil do I undergo to please you!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46079]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27031]]></link><description><![CDATA[A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riding a horse is not a gentle hobby, to be picked up and laid down like a game of Solitaire. It is a grand passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,  And heightens ease ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2768]]></link><description><![CDATA[O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,  And heightens ease with grace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Law is king of all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Law is king of all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. -Henry David Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human history attests That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!--  Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13178]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human history attests That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!--  Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56081]]></link><description><![CDATA[That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56081</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the movement from darkness to light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the movement from darkness to light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our struggling offense finally caught up to us. We couldn't hit in clutch situations. That is their best guy, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32477]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our struggling offense finally caught up to us. We couldn't hit in clutch situations. That is their best guy, and he knows what he is doing and he pitched out of some jams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57611]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1332]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in the bleakest times, there are gifts to be discovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23867]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62761]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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The experience of the Jews in relation to Jesus, and of the churches throughout the ages, demonstrates that this is the most persistent and far-reaching temptation which confronts men. To call attention to this is always an urgently necessary part of the prophetic ministry within the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38585]]></link><description><![CDATA[At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are, of course, several things in Ontario that are more dangerous than wolves. For instance, the step-ladder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27809]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are, of course, several things in Ontario that are more dangerous than wolves. For instance, the step-ladder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will most likely find a tremendous difference in opinion from certain Ohio universities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36495]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will most likely find a tremendous difference in opinion from certain Ohio universities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My only rivalry is with my brother. He plays a lot now. He's getting a lot better. But I still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40314]]></link><description><![CDATA[My only rivalry is with my brother. He plays a lot now. He's getting a lot better. But I still like to take care of business against him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. [Lat., Facito aliquid operis, ut semper ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62118]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed. [Lat., Facito aliquid operis, ut semper te diabolus inveniat occupatum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. He ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10359]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come to the edge,' he said. They said, 'We are afraid.' 'Come to the edge,' he said. They came. He pushed them... And they flew. -Peter McWilliams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53468]]></link><description><![CDATA[An Atheist's laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18149]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59077]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;  I rave no more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14621]]></link><description><![CDATA[Serene I told my hands and wait, Nor care for wind or tide nor sea;  I rave no more 'gainst time or fate,   For lo! my own shall come to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Go forth a conqueror and win great victories. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51796]]></link><description><![CDATA[Go forth a conqueror and win great victories.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51796</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[The true art of government consists in not governing too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true art of government consists in not governing too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Residents of low-lying areas, mobile homes and tents should reach higher ground now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consumers are statistics. Customers are people. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consumers are statistics. Customers are people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. Itis for us to put ourselves ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. Itis for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They (the kidnappers) were terrorists from the south. We have not identified their specific group . . . We have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34266]]></link><description><![CDATA[They (the kidnappers) were terrorists from the south. We have not identified their specific group . . . We have launched pursuit operations,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4827]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mere flimflam stories, and nothing but shams and lies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58544]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of which is often fatal to the best of talents; it supplies the place of many talents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am always ready to learn although I do not always like to be taught. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24584]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am always ready to learn although I do not always like to be taught.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24584</guid></item></channel></rss>