<?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[Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Athletics should reduce stress, not increase it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Athletics should reduce stress, not increase it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good.  The ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23043]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Erin first rose from the dark-swelling flood, God blessed the green island, he saw it was good.  The Emerald of Europe, it sparkled and shone   In the ring of this world, the most precious stone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king. -King Richard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55820]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king. -King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, let her brother live: Thieves for the robbery have authority  When judges steal themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23516]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, let her brother live: Thieves for the robbery have authority  When judges steal themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear if forced to flow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60264]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hard Unkindness' alter'd eye, That mocks the tear if forced to flow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60264</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64691]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[never let my right hand know what my left hand does. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34583]]></link><description><![CDATA[never let my right hand know what my left hand does.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He played awesome. This is the year he needs to break out and believe in his game. I believe he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37068]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played awesome. This is the year he needs to break out and believe in his game. I believe he hit a stepping stone in doing so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37068</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art thou the topmost apple The gathers could reach,  Reddening on the bough?   Shall I not take ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2942]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art thou the topmost apple The gathers could reach,  Reddening on the bough?   Shall I not take thee?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Direct The clasping ivy where to climb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Direct The clasping ivy where to climb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love one's neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4947]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love one's neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Her years Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;  But there are forms which Time to touch forbears.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Her years Were ripe, they might make six-and-twenty springs;  But there are forms which Time to touch forbears.   And turns aside his scythe to vulgar things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64907]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy and the NettlesA boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother, saying, Although it hurts me very much, I only touched it gently. That was just why it stung you, said his Mother. The next time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be soft as silk to your hand, and not in the least hurt you. Whatever you do, do with all your might.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4500]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8579]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Teacher, Martyr, 1945  The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus he dangles before man's fantasy a kingdom of faith, of power, and of peace, into which only he can enter who consents to the temptations; and he conceals from men that he, as the devil, is the most unfortunate and unhappy of beings, since he is finally and eternally rejected by God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10788]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't do half of a job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't do half of a job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cause a day keeps reality away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22052]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cause a day keeps reality away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6268]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, Teacher, 1153 Commemoration of William & Catherine Booth, Founders of the Salvation Army, 1912 & 1890   Bernard [of Clairvaux] did not stop with love for God or Christ, he insisted also that the Christian must love his neighbors, including even his enemies. Not necessarily that he must feel affection for them -- that is not always possible in this life, though it will be in heaven -- but that he must treat them as love dictates, doing always for others what he would that they should do for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65592]]></link><description><![CDATA[He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45058]]></link><description><![CDATA[Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45058</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Force shites upon Reason's Back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Force shites upon Reason's Back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The love of money is the root of all evil. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42997]]></link><description><![CDATA[The love of money is the root of all evil.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your friend is the man who knows all about you and still likes you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's War and Peace everyday. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20135]]></link><description><![CDATA[I may not lead the most dramatic life, but in my brain it's War and Peace everyday.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the spirits, I believe the spirit of judging is the worst, and it has had the rule of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6894]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the spirits, I believe the spirit of judging is the worst, and it has had the rule of me, I cannot tell you how dreadfully and how long... This, I find has more hindered my progress in love and gentleness than all things else. I never knew what the words, "Judge not that ye be not judged," meant before; now they seem to me some of the most awful, necessary, and beautiful in the whole Word of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14769]]></link><description><![CDATA[I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The open door tempts a saint. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51027]]></link><description><![CDATA[The open door tempts a saint.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger thewind, the stronger the trees. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21568]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger thewind, the stronger the trees.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[In the  ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam  Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41327]]></link><description><![CDATA[[In the  ante room, under a tapestry of a gorgeous Imam  Hussein Muzzaffar Salak (] people call me Ali ... Three of the prayer leaders were  martyred during the Iran-Iraq war [of the 1980s].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure The table round. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be large in mirth; anon we'll drink a measure The table round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61783]]></link><description><![CDATA[With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no life that does not contribute to history. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no life that does not contribute to history.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17957]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65361]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60731]]></link><description><![CDATA[The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most enjoyable thing for me is having the feeling of being in pure nature where you're there and usually ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29028]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most enjoyable thing for me is having the feeling of being in pure nature where you're there and usually alone. It's like you're the first one to ever be there. Everything is perfectly pristine and very quiet -- snow dampens all the sound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Love Lucy was never just a title! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33528]]></link><description><![CDATA[I Love Lucy was never just a title!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That gave us a little breathing room. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31510]]></link><description><![CDATA[That gave us a little breathing room.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31510</guid></item></channel></rss>