<?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[She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61888]]></link><description><![CDATA[She (his wife) is the wind beneath my wings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was also an outage from Stella Road west to the county line, those folks were out, too. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32819]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was also an outage from Stella Road west to the county line, those folks were out, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is peace, God is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50083]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is peace, God is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42980]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.  [Ger., Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergiebt,   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.  [Ger., Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergiebt,   Ach! der ist bald allein.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26456]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too quick a sense of constant infelicity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Missouri Bar runs people through Constitutional curriculum. I would like to see high schools take that up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34009]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Missouri Bar runs people through Constitutional curriculum. I would like to see high schools take that up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strong payroll growth raises inflationary concerns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strong payroll growth raises inflationary concerns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45013]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence is one of the most fun things to watch ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Violence is one of the most fun things to watch]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26180]]></link><description><![CDATA[A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The process builds faith. You have to trust God and pray a lot - for yourself, for Habitat, for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The process builds faith. You have to trust God and pray a lot - for yourself, for Habitat, for the other families.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9637]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9637</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36293]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the matches gave such a brilliant light that it was brighter than at noon-day: never formerly had the grandmother been so beautiful and so tall. She took the little maiden, on her arm, and both flew in brightness and in joy so high, so very high, and then above was neither cold, nor hunger, nor anxiety--they were with God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25319]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature was formerly an art and finance a trade; today it is the reverse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a Genius in all of us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28734]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a Genius in all of us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green;  But as the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43375]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green;  But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives   Slowly she clothes herself with leaves--    Hides her fruit under them, hard to find.     . . . .      But by and by, when the flowers grow few       And the fruits are dwindling and small to view--        Out she comes in her matron grace         With the purple myriads of her race;          Full of plenty from root to crown,           Showering plenty her feet adown.            While far over head hang gorgeously             Large luscious berries of sanguine dye,              For the best grows highest, always highest,               Upon the mulberry-tree.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20224]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus 'tis with all; their chief and constant care Is to seem everything but what they are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20224</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60986]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature abhors a vacuum. [Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature abhors a vacuum. [Fr., Natura abhorret vacuum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He left a Corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43636]]></link><description><![CDATA[He left a Corsair's name to other times, Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45927]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45927</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3332]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first mistake of Art is to assume that it's serious.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you don't play for a month here, it's tough to keep (fans) in the groove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30747]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you don't play for a month here, it's tough to keep (fans) in the groove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8053]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988  [Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8053</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12418]]></link><description><![CDATA[Content makes poor men rich; Discontent makes rich men poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Children, behold the Chimpanzee; He sits on the ancestral tree  From which we sprang in ages gone.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Children, behold the Chimpanzee; He sits on the ancestral tree  From which we sprang in ages gone.   I'm glad we sprang: had we held on,    We might, for aught that I can say,     Be horrid Chimpanzees to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62986]]></link><description><![CDATA[A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52451]]></link><description><![CDATA[The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one? [Lat., Vox populi habet aliquid divinum: nam quomo do aliter tot capita in unum conspirare possint?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52451</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A friendship that can end never really began ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10929]]></link><description><![CDATA[A friendship that can end never really began]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10929</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I decided to do something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30009]]></link><description><![CDATA[I decided to do something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25754]]></link><description><![CDATA[To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death does determine life. Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous. However, to be sincere I must add that for me death is important only if it is not justified and rationalized by reason. For me death is the maximum of epicness and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Confound the cats! All cats--alway-- Cats of all colours, black, white, grey;  By night a nuisance and by day-- ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5314]]></link><description><![CDATA[Confound the cats! All cats--alway-- Cats of all colours, black, white, grey;  By night a nuisance and by day--   Confound the cats!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reagan is more powerful today than when he was president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reagan is more powerful today than when he was president.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46647]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bees pillage the flowers here and there but they make honey of them which is all their own; it is no longer thyme or marjolaine: so the pieces borrowed from others he will transform and mix up into a work all his own. [Fr., Les abeilles pillotent deca dela les fleurs; mais elles en font aprez le miel, qui est tout leur; ce n'est plus thym, ny marjolaine: ainsi les pieces empruntees d'aultruy, il les transformera et confondra pour en faire un ouvrage tout sien.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10249]]></link><description><![CDATA[A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's never a dull moment. If you walk on your last two steps before you get to the next drill, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34632]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's never a dull moment. If you walk on your last two steps before you get to the next drill, he's in your ear screaming. It's new, but I think it's going to be good for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Building and marrying of Children are great wasters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Building and marrying of Children are great wasters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49165</guid></item></channel></rss>