<?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[Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10902]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom is the plague of wise men and the idol of fools.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[they are always tough here and have been known to pull out some tricks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30345]]></link><description><![CDATA[they are always tough here and have been known to pull out some tricks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30345</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62864]]></link><description><![CDATA[Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57782]]></link><description><![CDATA[Spring hangs her infant blossoms on the trees, Rock'd in the cradle of the western breeze.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57782</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51230]]></link><description><![CDATA[Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51230</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Play has been man's most useful preoccupation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is bestÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â donations can be sent to the church office for funneling to and through Presbyterian Disaster ReliefÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is bestÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â donations can be sent to the church office for funneling to and through Presbyterian Disaster ReliefÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â which has issued a $10 million appeal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Constitution should be short and obscure ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9906]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Constitution should be short and obscure]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indeed heresies are themselves instigated by philosophy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11396]]></link><description><![CDATA[To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36930]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn't be unthinkable that he would chase her out with a baseball bat,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rocks whereon greatest men have oftest wreck'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower;  Thy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, sweet thy current by town and by tower, The green sunny vale and the dark linden bower;  Thy waves as they dimple smile back on the plain,   And Rhine, ancient river, thou'rt German again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64953]]></link><description><![CDATA[I know that there are a lot of people out there with stories far worse than mine but you, too, can make it. To those of you who have, welcome to life. I celebrate you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5096]]></link><description><![CDATA[He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would have been adultery.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8819]]></link><description><![CDATA[The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58398]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness, and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16004]]></link><description><![CDATA[If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink. For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15652]]></link><description><![CDATA[A liberal is a man who leaves the room when the fight starts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Concentrated political power is the most dangerous thing on earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory  Of what he was, what is, and what must ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd, wakes the bitter memory  Of what he was, what is, and what must be   Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17313]]></link><description><![CDATA[When Nature has work to be done, she create a genius to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21898]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned that, before you reach an objective, you must be ready with a new one, and you must start to communicate it to the organization. But it is not the goal itself that is important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3647]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,  Pride made the devil, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51922]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money,  Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin;   So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.   - transcribed by James Henry Dixon,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12835]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44342]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963 Thanksgiving (U.S.)   One ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Cecilia, Martyr at Rome, c.230 Commemoration of Clive Staples Lewis, Spiritual Writer, 1963 Thanksgiving (U.S.)   One man may be so placed that his anger sheds the blood of thousands, and another so placed that, however angry he gets, he will only be laughed at. But the little mark on the soul may be much the same in both. Each has done something to himself which, unless he repents, will make it harder for him to keep out of the rage the next time he is tempted, and will make the rage worse when he does fall into it. Each of them, if he seriously turns to God, can have that twist in the central man straightened out again: each is, in the long run, doomed if he will not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10489]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17941]]></link><description><![CDATA[Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920]]></link><description><![CDATA[Petition me no petitions, Sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business,  To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk;   And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5476]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing. 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing. 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;  But he that filches from me my good name   Robs me of that which not enriches him    And makes me poor indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek simplicity but distrust it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek simplicity but distrust it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to research and the investor to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27708]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to research and the investor to be vigilant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a leader demonstrates competency, genuine concern for others, and admirable character, people will follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9209]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a leader demonstrates competency, genuine concern for others, and admirable character, people will follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5581]]></link><description><![CDATA[We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We don't want this issue hanging over our heads. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40539]]></link><description><![CDATA[We don't want this issue hanging over our heads.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret wound still lives within the breast. [Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret wound still lives within the breast. [Lat., Tacitum vivit sub pectore vulnus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60342]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact. Many grown-ups will obstinately persist, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact. Many grown-ups will obstinately persist, if only now and then, in composing small strings of sentences in their heads and achieving at least momentary logic. This probably cannot be prevented, but we have learned how to minimize the consequences by arranging that such grown-ups will be unable to pursue that logic very far. If they were at home in the technology of writing, there's no telling how much social disorder they would cause by thinking things out at length.Our schools have chosen to cut this danger off as close to the root as possible, thus taking measures to preclude not only the birth of thought but its conception. They give the pill to even the youngest children, but just to be on the safe side, they give it to everybody else, too, especially all would-be schoolteachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Various kinds of ideas can be classified by their relationship to the authentication process. There are ideas systematically prepared for authentication ("theories"), ideas not derived from any systematic process ("visions"), ideas which could not survive any reasonable authentication process ("illusions"), ideas which exempt themselves from any authentication process ("myths"), ideas which have already passed authentication processes ("facts"), as well as ideas known to have failed- or certain to fail- such processes ("falsehoods" - both mistakes and lies).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13045]]></link><description><![CDATA[In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We try to meet every injured soldier as they come in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41544]]></link><description><![CDATA[We try to meet every injured soldier as they come in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lying lips are abomination to the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lying lips are abomination to the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your voice dries up if you don't use it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65354]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your voice dries up if you don't use it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65354</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's a real go-getter. He's got a lot of energy and strong beliefs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41213]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's a real go-getter. He's got a lot of energy and strong beliefs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41213</guid></item></channel></rss>