<?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 makes all doctrines plain and clear?-- About two hundred pounds a year.  And that which was prov'd true ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12628]]></link><description><![CDATA[What makes all doctrines plain and clear?-- About two hundred pounds a year.  And that which was prov'd true before   Prove false again? Two hundred more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4433]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1420]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7317]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own poverty and weakness -- today pleased and comforted with the seeming firmness and strength of our own pious tempers and fancying ourselves to be somewhat. Tomorrow, fallen into our own mire, we are dejected, but not humbled; we grieve, but it is only the grief of pride at the seeing our perfection not to be such as we had vainly imagined. And thus it will be, till the whole turn of our minds be so changed that we as fully see and know our inability to have any goodness of our own as to have a life of our own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He will burne his house, to warme his hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49419]]></link><description><![CDATA[He will burne his house, to warme his hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are not in business to be popular. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1284]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are not in business to be popular.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head out when you're coming home his face might burn up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24373]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17380]]></link><description><![CDATA[The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17380</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O day and night, but this is wondrous strange! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61987]]></link><description><![CDATA[O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem  None rebels except subjects? The prince who   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyranny Is far the worst of treasons. Dost thou deem  None rebels except subjects? The prince who   Neglects or violates his trust is more    A brigand than the robber-chief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The danger inherent in reform is that the cure may be worse than the disease. Reform is an operation on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The danger inherent in reform is that the cure may be worse than the disease. Reform is an operation on the social body; but unlike medical surgeons, reformers are not on guard against unpredictable side effects which may divert the course of reform toward unwanted results. Moreover, quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23910]]></link><description><![CDATA[All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My thoughts ran a wool-gathering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59207]]></link><description><![CDATA[My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3582]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a calfwithin Californiamany calves drowned in Chino mud. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2648]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a calfwithin Californiamany calves drowned in Chino mud.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a situation of chaos in the military line of command. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40297]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a situation of chaos in the military line of command.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a more traditional baseball person. We're going to give the kids free rein to play the traditional style of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38898]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a more traditional baseball person. We're going to give the kids free rein to play the traditional style of baseball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52682]]></link><description><![CDATA[When chickens quit quarrelling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52682</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63777]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think countries in the region are ruled by constitutions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think countries in the region are ruled by constitutions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49014]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fair day in winter is the mother of a storme.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16644]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The science of today is the technology of tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9350]]></link><description><![CDATA[The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings!  How ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54514]]></link><description><![CDATA[For God's sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings!  How some have been deposed, some slain in war,   Some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed,    Some poisoned by their wives, some sleeping killed--     All murdered; for within the hollow crown      That rounds the mortal temples of a king       Keeps Death his court; and there the antic sits,        Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp;         Allowing him a breath, a little scene,          To monarchize, be feared, and kill with looks;           Infusing him with self and vain conceit,            As if this flesh which walls about our life             Were brass impregnable; and humored thus,              Comes at the last, and with a little pin               Bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!                Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood                 With solemn reverence, Throw away respect,                  Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty;                   For you have but mistook me all this while.                    I live with bread like you, feel want, taste grief,                     Need friends. Subjected thus,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2086]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Song forbids victorious deeds to die. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Song forbids victorious deeds to die.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try, try again.  If at first you don't succeed,   Try, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59690]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis a lesson you should heed, Try, try, try again.  If at first you don't succeed,   Try, try, try again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66781]]></link><description><![CDATA[The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares about is plain enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The uncertainty lies always in the intellectual region, never in the practical. What Paul cares about is plain enough to the true heart, however far from plain to the man whose desire to understand goes ahead of his obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alcohol removes inhibitions - like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and shouted: "Now bring ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alcohol removes inhibitions - like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and shouted: "Now bring on that damn cat!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A.I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30587]]></link><description><![CDATA[A.I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53787]]></link><description><![CDATA[One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51886]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43587]]></link><description><![CDATA[What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friends should be judged by their acts, not their words.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is precisely those things which belong to "the people" which have historically been despoiled- wild creatures, the air, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47190]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is precisely those things which belong to "the people" which have historically been despoiled- wild creatures, the air, and waterways being notable examples. This goes to the heart of why property rights are socially important in the first place. Property rights mean self-interested monitors. No owned creatures are in danger of extinction. No owned forests are in danger of being leveled. No one kills the goose that lays the golden egg when it is his goose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made a mistake by going into the ring, but it was his nephew, and this hooligan (Judah) -- that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30303]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made a mistake by going into the ring, but it was his nephew, and this hooligan (Judah) -- that's what he is, a hooligan -- committed these very flagrant fouls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's still some room to grow with their product lines. The question is what they'll do to grow the brand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42566]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's still some room to grow with their product lines. The question is what they'll do to grow the brand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Remigius, Bishop of Rheims, Apostle of the Franks, 533 Commemoration of Thérèse of Lisieux, Carmelite Nun, Spiritual Writer, 1897 To live of love, it is to know no fear;  No memory of past faults can I recall; No imprint of my sins remaineth here;  The fire of Love divine effaces all. O sacred flames! O furnace of delight!  I sing my safe sweet happiness to prove. In these mild fires I dwell by day, by night.  I live of love!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Them that has, gets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Them that has, gets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23331]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23331</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17881]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17881</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></channel></rss>