<?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[Wrong life cannot be lived rightly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great, good, and just, could I but rate My grief with thy too rigid fate,  I'd weep the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18341]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great, good, and just, could I but rate My grief with thy too rigid fate,  I'd weep the world in such a strain   As it should deluge once again;    But since thy loud-tongued blood demands supplies     More from Briareus' hands than Argus' eyes,      I'll sing thy obsequies with trumpet sounds       And write thy epitaph in blood and wounds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires.  God--and your native land! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires.  God--and your native land!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were expecting such an escalation, and we will witness more in the next few weeks, ... We will deal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36809]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were expecting such an escalation, and we will witness more in the next few weeks, ... We will deal with it and crush it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no business like show business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5015]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no business like show business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll,  There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road,   An' her love, voe the jay o' my soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I lived to write, and wrote to live ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62417]]></link><description><![CDATA[I lived to write, and wrote to live]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45481]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Allen Gardiner, founder of the South American Missionary Society, 1851 Commemoration of Albert Schweitzer, Teacher, Physician, Missionary, 1965   The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this there grows In my most ill-compos'd affection such  A stanchless avarice that, were I King,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20164]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this there grows In my most ill-compos'd affection such  A stanchless avarice that, were I King,   I should cut off the nobles for their lands,    Desire his jewels, and this other's house,     And my more-having would be as a sauce      To make me hunger more, that I should forge       Quarrels unjust against the good and loyal,        Destroying them for wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody who owns the stock for a long-term investment is going to sell over a $60 million miss]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We kept our composure down the stretch and made some big shots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41035]]></link><description><![CDATA[We kept our composure down the stretch and made some big shots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Sesquippledan', he would say, 'Sesquippledan verboojuice". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27970]]></link><description><![CDATA['Sesquippledan', he would say, 'Sesquippledan verboojuice".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. - The House of Gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail. - The House of Gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59540]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52110]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time for the individual to descend into the depths of his or her psyche, to be available to barely audible signals rustling for attention. Long periods of time may pass in which nothing seems to be happening. But we know that kind of space must be created if the mind is to leap out of its accustomed ruts, to part from the mechanical, the known, the familiar, the standard, and generate a leap into the new.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among them, but not of them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among them, but not of them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23197]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy lives upon doubts, it becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23197</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12103]]></link><description><![CDATA[One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45135]]></link><description><![CDATA[All colors are the friends of their neighbors and the lovers of their opposites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poor dancer will be disturbed even by the hem of her skirt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11008]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poor dancer will be disturbed even by the hem of her skirt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave Him [God] out of our explanations, and the life of thought is decapitated... Without God, everything dries up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6480]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave Him [God] out of our explanations, and the life of thought is decapitated... Without God, everything dries up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6480</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few men know how to kiss well. Fortunately, I've always had time to teach them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few men know how to kiss well. Fortunately, I've always had time to teach them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrible is the temptation to be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terrible is the temptation to be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; Theless he spoke the more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wise old owl lived in an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; Theless he spoke the more he heard: Why can't we all be like that bird.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63860]]></link><description><![CDATA[The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do know that some of the players inside the house on that evening knew what transpired, and we need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32926]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do know that some of the players inside the house on that evening knew what transpired, and we need them to come forward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Failure is success if we learn from it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62895]]></link><description><![CDATA[Failure is success if we learn from it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19559]]></link><description><![CDATA[The multitude of fools is a protection to the wise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8551]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility. You may remember, when I was talking about sexual morality, I warned you that the centre of Christian morals did not lie there. Well, now we have come to the centre. According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8551</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56962]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only cure retail but you can prevent wholesale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In addition, the deceased was not the best at saying when he was going to travel - in other words, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34901]]></link><description><![CDATA[In addition, the deceased was not the best at saying when he was going to travel - in other words, there are no grounds to criticize the family in this matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52459]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rabble estimate few things according to their real value, most things according to their prejudices. [Lat., Vulgus ex veritate pauca, ex opinione multa aestimat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes the best gain is to lose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17148]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes the best gain is to lose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56405]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sinning is the best part of repentance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a vital community resource. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32447]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a vital community resource.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leave because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38860]]></link><description><![CDATA[Energy is going to catch the attention of the market. It's probably a force that's not going to leave because we're in transition from concern about oil to concerns about natural gas and how that will affect consumer spending as we head into winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53605]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9038</guid></item></channel></rss>