<?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[We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraqresent being invaded and know the ground better than we do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60636]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraqresent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50073]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't love, learn how to flatter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16182]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't love, learn how to flatter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20225]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man puts on a Character he is a stranger to, there's as much difference between what he appears, and what he is really in himself, as there is between a VIzor and a Face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10920]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25655]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never judge a book by its movie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4569]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never judge a book by its movie.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ordinary corporation is a person for purposes of the adjudicatory processes, whether it represents proprietary, spiritual, aesthetic, or charitable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43939]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ordinary corporation is a person for purposes of the adjudicatory processes, whether it represents proprietary, spiritual, aesthetic, or charitable causes. So it should be as respects valleys, alpine meadows, rivers, lakes, estuaries, beaches, ridges, groves of trees, swampland, or even air that feels the destructive pressures of modern technology and modern life. The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  It must have been a most blessed discovery, that of an old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7590]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  It must have been a most blessed discovery, that of an old Latin Bible which he found in the Erfurt Library about this time. He had never seen the Book before. It taught him another lesson than that of fasts and vigils... Luther learned now that a man was saved not by singing masses, but by the infinite grace of God: a more credible hypothesis. He gradually got himself founded, as on the rock. No wonder he should venerate the Bible, which had brought this blessed help to him. He prized it as the Word of the Highest must be prized by such a man. He determined to hold by that, as through life and to death he firmly did.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7590</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that die by famine die by inches. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20154]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that die by famine die by inches.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58181]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trees eate but once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50020]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trees eate but once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the cruelest teacher; first she gives the test, then teaches the lesson. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59290]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the cruelest teacher; first she gives the test, then teaches the lesson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21622]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY He has come! the Christ of God; Left for us His glad abode, Stooping from His throne of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6680]]></link><description><![CDATA[CHRISTMAS DAY He has come! the Christ of God; Left for us His glad abode, Stooping from His throne of bliss, To this darksome wilderness. He has come! the Prince of Peace; Come to bid our sorrows cease; Come to scatter with His light All the darkness of our night. He, the Mighty King, has come! Making this poor world His home; Come to bear our sin's sad load,-- Son of David, Son of God! He has come whose name of grace Speaks deliverance to our race; Left for us His glad abode,-- Son of Mary, Son of God! Unto us a Child is born! Ne'er has earth beheld a morn, Among all the morns of time, Half so glorious in its prime! Unto us a Son is given! He has come from God's own heaven, Bringing with Him, from above, Holy peace and holy love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6680</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is not anything I know which hath done more mischief to Religion... than the disparaging of Reason, under pretense ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8300]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is not anything I know which hath done more mischief to Religion... than the disparaging of Reason, under pretense of respect and favour to it. For hereby the very Foundations of Christian Faith have been undermined, and the World prepared for Atheism. And if Reason must not be beard, the Being of a God, and the Authority of Scripture, can neither be proved nor defended; and so our Faith drops to the Ground like a House that hath no Foundation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2340]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's one of the most emotionally eloquent performances of the year. It shows how Hollywood has just scratched the surface ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33122]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's one of the most emotionally eloquent performances of the year. It shows how Hollywood has just scratched the surface of her talent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63093]]></link><description><![CDATA[When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom.
Hi, Mom!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid wooed by incapacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51957]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid wooed by incapacity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38793]]></link><description><![CDATA[I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50043]]></link><description><![CDATA[We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1469]]></link><description><![CDATA[When will people understand that words can cut as sharply as any blade, and that those cuts leave scars upon our souls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11470]]></link><description><![CDATA[After last night's debate, the reputation of Messieurs Lincoln and Douglas is secure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52919]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62650]]></link><description><![CDATA[Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66385]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can only hate the person whom we love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25890]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can only hate the person whom we love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's really a focal point for us that our scores are going up -- we're closing that gap, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36888]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's really a focal point for us that our scores are going up -- we're closing that gap,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55440]]></link><description><![CDATA[If they make you not then the better answer, you may say they are not the men you took them for. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61083]]></link><description><![CDATA[I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61083</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   The entrance into Jerusalem [on Palm ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6373]]></link><description><![CDATA[Palm Sunday Commemoration of William Augustus Muhlenberg of New York, Priest, 1877   The entrance into Jerusalem [on Palm Sunday] has all the elements of the theatre of the absurd: the poor king; truth comes riding on a donkey; symbolic actions -- even parading without a permit! Also, when Jesus "set his face to go to Jerusalem," what was involved was direct action, an open confrontation and public demonstration of the incompatibility of evil with the Kingdom of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4397]]></link><description><![CDATA[On the ear Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They gave me their name, which was fake. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30498]]></link><description><![CDATA[They gave me their name, which was fake.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining,  While my soul expands with glee,   What ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23111]]></link><description><![CDATA[On my velvet couch reclining, Ivy leaves my brow entwining,  While my soul expands with glee,   What are kings and crowns to me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18052]]></link><description><![CDATA[Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the good news we have been waiting for! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34969]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the good news we have been waiting for!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr., ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5244]]></link><description><![CDATA[You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr., Vous ne jouez donc pas le whist, monsieur? Helas! quelle triste vieilesse vous vous preparez!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet, still, from either beach, The voice of blood shall reach,  More audible than speech,   "We are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet, still, from either beach, The voice of blood shall reach,  More audible than speech,   "We are one!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53586]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority,--  Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51391]]></link><description><![CDATA[But man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority,--  Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven   As make the angels weep.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is the soul of business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52530]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is the soul of business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52530</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[A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30988]]></link><description><![CDATA[A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8663]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My son's my worst critic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41692]]></link><description><![CDATA[My son's my worst critic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41692</guid></item></channel></rss>