<?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[Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24365]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64668]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24792]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is Truth which we must look for in Holy Writ, not cunning of words. All Scripture ought to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7799]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is Truth which we must look for in Holy Writ, not cunning of words. All Scripture ought to be read in the spirit in which it was written. We must rather seek for what is profitable in Scripture, than for what ministereth to subtlety in discourse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9032]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23066]]></link><description><![CDATA[Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We need not despair of any man, so long as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8463]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Irenæus, Bishop of Lyons, Teacher, Martyr, c.200  We need not despair of any man, so long as he lives. For God deemed it better to bring good out of evil than not to permit evil at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves  When we will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58903]]></link><description><![CDATA[But something may be done that we will not; And sometimes we are devils to ourselves  When we will tempt the frailty of our powers,   Presuming on their changeful potency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And Steal immortal blessings from her lips; who,even in pure and vestal modesty, still blush, as thinking their own kisses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23847]]></link><description><![CDATA[And Steal immortal blessings from her lips; who,even in pure and vestal modesty, still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55201]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children are more influenced by sermons you act than by sermons you preach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12861]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To touch the quick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55144]]></link><description><![CDATA[To touch the quick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3223]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fact that writers will go through so much to remain writers says something, perhaps everything. It would be far easier (and nearly always more profitable) to become a real estate agent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57168]]></link><description><![CDATA[Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19652]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think homosexuality is a choice. Society forces you to think it's a choice, but in fact, it's in one's nature. The choice is whether one expresses one's nature truthfully or spends the rest of one's life lying about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47289]]></link><description><![CDATA[A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54290]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America any boy may become President and I suppose it's just one of the risks he takes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have different personnel than the '95 team. We have tough, tough guys who are willing to do whatever it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29633]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have different personnel than the '95 team. We have tough, tough guys who are willing to do whatever it takes to win.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15248]]></link><description><![CDATA[Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools. -- 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15248</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to have a sign over my computer that read OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS, but lately I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1902]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to have a sign over my computer that read OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS, but lately I sometimes ask myself how many more new tricks I want to learn. Wouldn’t it be easier just to be outdated?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3623]]></link><description><![CDATA[Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can get snow blindness if you're not careful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29030]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can get snow blindness if you're not careful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5464]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[will not make a decision on sending U.S. troops until we have an agreement in hand and can evaluate whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41268]]></link><description><![CDATA[will not make a decision on sending U.S. troops until we have an agreement in hand and can evaluate whether it meets the conditions President Clinton has outlined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't know how they live, where they go, how many of them there are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39743]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't know how they live, where they go, how many of them there are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20330]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From fibers of pain and hope and trouble And toil and happiness,--one by one,--  Twisted together, or single or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11128]]></link><description><![CDATA[From fibers of pain and hope and trouble And toil and happiness,--one by one,--  Twisted together, or single or double,   The varying thread of our life is spun.    Hope shall cheer though the chain be galling;     Light shall come though the gloom be falling;      Faith will list for the Master calling       Our hearts to his rest,--when the day is done.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10831]]></link><description><![CDATA[Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45824]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51148]]></link><description><![CDATA[He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when it is in his power to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46173]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remorse is the pain of sin ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remorse is the pain of sin]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55990]]></link><description><![CDATA[How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign of bliss and joy! -King Henry VI. Part III. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're looking to build off the momentum we started in Costa Rica. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32302]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're looking to build off the momentum we started in Costa Rica.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best thing you can do when you've made a mistake is exactly what she's done: Admit it, admit it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31213]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best thing you can do when you've made a mistake is exactly what she's done: Admit it, admit it soon and put yourself at the mercy of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marry because you have drank with the king, And the king hath so graciously pledged you,  You shall no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marry because you have drank with the king, And the king hath so graciously pledged you,  You shall no more be called shoemakers.   But you and yours to the world's end    Shall be called the trade of the gentle craft.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He gives twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.]   - credited to Publius Syrus Mimus, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17451]]></link><description><![CDATA[He gives twice who gives quickly. [Lat., Bis dat qui cito dat.]   - credited to Publius Syrus Mimus,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45253]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63724]]></link><description><![CDATA[All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The covetous are always in want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50337]]></link><description><![CDATA[The covetous are always in want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50337</guid></item></channel></rss>