<?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[There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15891]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No true Witches today practice human sacrafice, torture, or any form of ritual murder.Anyone who does is not a Witch, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54303]]></link><description><![CDATA[No true Witches today practice human sacrafice, torture, or any form of ritual murder.Anyone who does is not a Witch, but a psychopath.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54303</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And I had lent my watch last night to one That dines to-day at the sheriff's. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23260]]></link><description><![CDATA[And I had lent my watch last night to one That dines to-day at the sheriff's.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise man hears one word and understands two. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60160]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise man hears one word and understands two.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58360]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know them all now, and in any critical moment of my life, they all rise up in armed legions for or against me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The situation is quite desperate. It's the hardest drought that has ever faced this country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34827]]></link><description><![CDATA[The situation is quite desperate. It's the hardest drought that has ever faced this country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gather in your resources, rally all your faculties, marshal all your energies, focus all your capacities upon mastery of at least one field of endeavor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25508]]></link><description><![CDATA[The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Man Bitten by a DogA man who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1592]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Man Bitten by a DogA man who had been bitten by a Dog went about in quest of someone who might heal him. A friend, meeting him and learning what he wanted, said, If you would be cured, take a piece of bread, and dip it in the blood from your wound, and go and give it to the Dog that bit you. The Man who had been bitten laughed at this advice and said, Why? If I should do so, it would be as if I should beg every Dog in the town to bite me. Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed increase their means of injuring you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who are the violets now That strew the green lap of the new-come spring? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60722]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who are the violets now That strew the green lap of the new-come spring?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;  For he, by geometric scale,   Could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24528]]></link><description><![CDATA[In mathematics he was greater Than Tycho Brahe, or Erra Pater;  For he, by geometric scale,   Could take the size of pots of ale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26916]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When time ends eternity begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65705]]></link><description><![CDATA[When time ends eternity begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5272]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life has taught me that respect, caring and love must be shared, for it's only through sharing that friendships are born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. [Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam ponimus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18643]]></link><description><![CDATA[We think a happy life consists in tranquility of mind. [Lat., In animi securitate vitam beatam ponimus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3963]]></link><description><![CDATA[To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27746]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27746</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm the quarterback -- you are going to get hit. Everyone on our offensive line played well, but obviously we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38268]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm the quarterback -- you are going to get hit. Everyone on our offensive line played well, but obviously we did miss O'Callaghan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38268</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21282]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "Shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child of trial, to mortality And all its changeful influences given;  On the green earth decreed to move ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59689]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child of trial, to mortality And all its changeful influences given;  On the green earth decreed to move and die,   And yet by such a fate prepared for heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I!  Freely welcome to my cup,   Could'st ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16227]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I!  Freely welcome to my cup,   Could'st thou sip and sip it up;    Make the most of life you may;     Life is short and wears away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All kinds of dangerous elements are trying to infiltrate into Azerbaijan, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36710]]></link><description><![CDATA[All kinds of dangerous elements are trying to infiltrate into Azerbaijan,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. [Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting. [Lat., Poena potest demi, culpa perennis erit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52504]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees; and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4528]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable comforters. They give strength to human compacts, nor are grave opinions brought forward without books. Arts and sciences, the benefits of which no mind can calculate. depend upon books.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58381]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we know love matters more than anything, and we know that nothing else REALLY matters, we move into the state of surrender. Surrender does not diminish our power, it enhances it. -Sara Paddison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672 Continuing a short series on the Bible: Come, Holy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6777]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672 Continuing a short series on the Bible: Come, Holy Ghost, for moved by thee The prophets wrote and spoke; Unlock the truth, thyself the key, Unseal the sacred book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't suddenly get Jedi powers by upgrading. It's just a number. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36294]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't suddenly get Jedi powers by upgrading. It's just a number.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who focused onthe shock of shardsas the phoenix birdburst from his shellnearly missed the sightof his wondrous maiden flightas ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who focused onthe shock of shardsas the phoenix birdburst from his shellnearly missed the sightof his wondrous maiden flightas he soared up and awayand out of sight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou, in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a life-long monument. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43046]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou, in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a life-long monument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought we passed up a lot of good pitches to hit. We're just not playing with any fire in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33792]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought we passed up a lot of good pitches to hit. We're just not playing with any fire in our eyes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou hast commanded, and so it is, that every inordinate affection should be its own punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61590]]></link><description><![CDATA[The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just gethim. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29441]]></link><description><![CDATA[You get him. I don't care what you have to do - just gethim.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9724]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have a high state of resentment for the conformity in this country. If you're not married and having children, it's like your life is empty or you're a communist meanie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the way the market works, but this is an unusual year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30661]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the way the market works, but this is an unusual year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21013]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the devil when he purports any evil against man, first perverts his mind. [Lat., At daemon, homini quum struit aliquid malum,  Pervertit illi primitus mentem suam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10433]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is too big to be courteous, but some are too little]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lawyers are like morticians. We all need one sooner or later, but better later than sooner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24360]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lawyers are like morticians. We all need one sooner or later, but better later than sooner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6626]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an occasion of practicing some virtue offered, he addressed himself to God, saying, "Lord, I cannot do this unless Thou enablest me"; and... then he received strength more than sufficient. When he had failed in his duty, he simply confessed his fault, saying to God, "I shall never do otherwise if Thou leavest me to myself; it is Thou who must hinder my falling, and mend what is amiss." After this, he gave himself no further uneasiness about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are moments in the music that are really talking about the violence, as a society, that we do to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33178]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are moments in the music that are really talking about the violence, as a society, that we do to our water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33178</guid></item></channel></rss>