<?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[In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65420]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me  A heaven not so large as yours ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19089]]></link><description><![CDATA[And so upon this wise I prayed,-- Great Spirit, give to me  A heaven not so large as yours   But large enough for me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think she'll [Venus Williams] be around for a very long time. I doubt it will be a long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58960]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think she'll [Venus Williams] be around for a very long time. I doubt it will be a long career for her. She can make a lot more money out of (tennis) rather than in tennis."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tact is the intelligence of the heart ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tact is the intelligence of the heart]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is probably the best year of my career, and we are having a good year. It's fun when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40167]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is probably the best year of my career, and we are having a good year. It's fun when you have support from everyone, and everyone is on the same page. It's rare that it happens at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A vice is a failure of desire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60504]]></link><description><![CDATA[A vice is a failure of desire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance favors the prepared mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22321]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance favors the prepared mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22321</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many men, so little time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27003]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many men, so little time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64375]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. [Lat., Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26117]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth. [Lat., Mendaci homini ne verum quidem dicenti credere solemus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/766]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room  Piled high with cases in my father's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room  Piled high with cases in my father's name;   Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out    Among the giant fossils of my past,     Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs      Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there       At this or that box, pulling through the gap,        In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy,         The first book first. And how I felt it beat          Under my pillow, in the morning's dark,           An hour before the sun would let me read!            My books!             At last, because the time was ripe,              I chanced upon the poets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what has worked with what sounded good. In area after area- crime, education, housing, race relations- the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Day of wrath that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning,  All the world to ashes turning.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11133]]></link><description><![CDATA[Day of wrath that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning,  All the world to ashes turning.   [Lat., Dies irae, dies illa!    Solvet saeclum in favilla,     Teste David cum Sybilla.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Higher education has seen its percentage of general fund decline. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32433]]></link><description><![CDATA[Higher education has seen its percentage of general fund decline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To believe that if we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52300]]></link><description><![CDATA[To believe that if we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization that the cause of our unhappiness is in our inadequate and blemished selves. Excessive desire is thus a means of suppressing our sense of worthlessness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17371]]></link><description><![CDATA[In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26]. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. [Ephesians 4:26].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16672]]></link><description><![CDATA[To freemen, threats are impotent. [Lat., Nulla enim minantis auctoritas apud liberos est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12372]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12372</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My parents are here for my education. I don't want to walk out of class. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41582]]></link><description><![CDATA[My parents are here for my education. I don't want to walk out of class.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60209]]></link><description><![CDATA[All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/97]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/97</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35441]]></link><description><![CDATA[The communities' response to our newsletter has been phenomenal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surface.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac.It's great for the first two weeks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a newspaper columnist is like being married to a nymphomaniac.It's great for the first two weeks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance, humility, and commitment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47594]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty conscience against others the way we wipe dirty fingers on a rag. This is as evil a misuse of others as the practice of exploitation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32860]]></link><description><![CDATA[What's the two things they tell you are healthiest to eat? Chicken and fish. You know what you should do? Combine them, eat a penguin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22877]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two stable outlooks versus one (negative by Moody's) confirms bullish outlook for the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two stable outlooks versus one (negative by Moody's) confirms bullish outlook for the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50068]]></link><description><![CDATA[When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40632]]></link><description><![CDATA[We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60101]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42925]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot to be said for the fellow who doesn't say it himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28032]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48400]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One day the world will look upon researchon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.Da Vinci. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3307]]></link><description><![CDATA[One day the world will look upon researchon animals as it now looks upon research on human beings.Da Vinci.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3307</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    The law of Christ, which it is our duty to fulfill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist    The law of Christ, which it is our duty to fulfill, is the bearing of the cross. Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky,  And spangled heavens, a shining frame,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky,  And spangled heavens, a shining frame,   Their great Original proclaim.    Forever singing, as they shine,     The hand that made us is divine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When man to man shall be friend and brother. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4948]]></link><description><![CDATA[When man to man shall be friend and brother.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10033]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagine the worst stomach pain you've ever had. I have that 24 hours a day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagine the worst stomach pain you've ever had. I have that 24 hours a day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2877</guid></item></channel></rss>