<?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[Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63616]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newman, with his clipped mustache and his whiskey-coated growl and his steely self-assurance, is an aristocrat of sleaze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Newman, with his clipped mustache and his whiskey-coated growl and his steely self-assurance, is an aristocrat of sleaze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62803]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  At no point does the Gospel encourage us to believe that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6188]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304  At no point does the Gospel encourage us to believe that every man will hearken to it, charm we never so wisely. The prophets, for all their passionate sincerity, for all their courageous simplifyings of the Gospel, will meet many deaf adders who stop their ears. We must reckon with this certain fact, and refuse to be daunted by it. But also there comes a point where accommodation can go no further. It is the Gospel we have to present, however we do it. We cannot hope to do it unless we walk humbly with the modern man, as well as with God, unless we are much more eager to learn from him and about him, than to instruct him. God help us, it is all very difficult. But was there ever a task better worth trying to do, or one in which, whether we fail or succeed, we more surely find our freedom?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clock has decided to take time into its own hands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59323]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clock has decided to take time into its own hands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approachyou than when you approach them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21176]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approachyou than when you approach them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27296]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks. She's not marrying the best man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27296</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace be with you. [Vulgate Lat., Pax vobiscum.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45862]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace be with you. [Vulgate Lat., Pax vobiscum.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Immodest words admit of no defence; For want of decency is want of sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defense is solid, and it's more athletic and faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defense is solid, and it's more athletic and faster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13056]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue of school choice is still alive but vouchers as a means is not a choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue of school choice is still alive but vouchers as a means is not a choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19920]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, "Who could have done this? we have no enemies.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimated--too low down, a perfect choke-damp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Society is like air; very high up, it is sublimated--too low down, a perfect choke-damp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I bid her goe? what and if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not?  Oh ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I bid her goe? what and if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not?  Oh no, no, no, I dare not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm a hopeful cynic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10967]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm a hopeful cynic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51902]]></link><description><![CDATA[The maxims of men reveal their characters. [Fr., Les maximes des hommes decelent leur coeur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10293]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, 'How good or how bad am I?' That's where courage comes in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Might was the measure of right. [Lat., Mensuraque juris  Vis erat.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Might was the measure of right. [Lat., Mensuraque juris  Vis erat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27046]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They knew the line was there. It could have caused a lot of people to get sick. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34134]]></link><description><![CDATA[They knew the line was there. It could have caused a lot of people to get sick.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20266]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6597]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no God, and the foundation of our nature is seditious, impious, refractory, opposed to and contemptuous of all that tries to rule it, and therefore contrary to order, ungovernable and negative. It is this foundation which Christianity calls the natural man. But the savage which is within us, and constitutes the primitive stuff of us, must be disciplined and civilized in order to produce a man. And the man must be patiently cultivated to produce a wise man; and the wise man must be tested and tried if he is to become righteous, and the righteous man must have substituted the will of God for his individual will, if he is to become a saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Its's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15193]]></link><description><![CDATA[Its's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15193</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The line with its rod is a long instrument whose lesser end holds a small reptile, while the other is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16117]]></link><description><![CDATA[The line with its rod is a long instrument whose lesser end holds a small reptile, while the other is held by a great fool. [Fr., La ligne avec sa canne est un long instrument,  Dont le plus mince bout tient un petit reptile,   Et dont Pautre est tenu pau un grand imbecile.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14357]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3113]]></link><description><![CDATA[The proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, they will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and their incomes dissipated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where thegoalposts are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22190]]></link><description><![CDATA[In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where thegoalposts are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24262]]></link><description><![CDATA[The problem with any unwritten law is that you don't know where to go to erase it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48012]]></link><description><![CDATA[To please great men is not the last degree of praise. [Lat., Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it's unfortunate that we are restricting members from leadership positions in community associations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39318]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it's unfortunate that we are restricting members from leadership positions in community associations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Instead, he killed people by lying and concealing the plot ... that resulted in the worst terrorist attack in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Instead, he killed people by lying and concealing the plot ... that resulted in the worst terrorist attack in the country's history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her pattern was when a child started crying, she couldn't stand it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her pattern was when a child started crying, she couldn't stand it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16447]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way,  That private reason 'tis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12633]]></link><description><![CDATA[And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way,  That private reason 'tis more just to curb,   Than by disputes the public peace disturb;    For points obscure are of small use to learn,     But common quiet is mankind's concern.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of the thing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stay till the lame messenger come, if you will know the truth of the thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them. . . ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51277]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the tag-rag people did not clap him and hiss him, according as he pleased and displeased them. . . . I am no true man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My brother was very happy to have been set free. He was not expecting this decision. He was writing a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28435]]></link><description><![CDATA[My brother was very happy to have been set free. He was not expecting this decision. He was writing a new Bible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63462]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Princess and the Pea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36287]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Princess and the Pea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36287</guid></item></channel></rss>