<?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[The Ants and the Grasshopper THE ANTS were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collectedin the summertime. A Grasshopper, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1498]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ants and the Grasshopper THE ANTS were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collectedin the summertime. A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passedby and earnestly begged for a little food. The Ants inquired ofhim, Why did you not treasure up food during the summer?' Hereplied, I had not leisure enough. I passed the days insinging. They then said in derision: If you were foolish enoughto sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed in thewinter.It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat. - "Time", ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27821]]></link><description><![CDATA[We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat. - "Time", On Journalists, May 8, 1950.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13694]]></link><description><![CDATA[We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45489]]></link><description><![CDATA[You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it tolife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22348]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it tolife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35936]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24363]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a big wall coming at us. It just rumbled, and the shingles started flying. That roar sounded like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32877]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a big wall coming at us. It just rumbled, and the shingles started flying. That roar sounded like it was fixing to come in the back door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud;  And sure, the reverent eye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17844]]></link><description><![CDATA[One may not doubt that, somehow Good Shall come of Water and of Mud;  And sure, the reverent eye must see   A purpose in Liquidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16395]]></link><description><![CDATA[Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43289]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability.It is the ability to recognize ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22617]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability.It is the ability to recognize ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26869]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -But the pain of griefIs only a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief -But the pain of griefIs only a shadowWhen compared with the painOf never risking love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a right anybody can use, so please, if there is any problem with a press publication, there are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29418]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a right anybody can use, so please, if there is any problem with a press publication, there are also laws to solve it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[an unbalanced emotion poised between fear and love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42430]]></link><description><![CDATA[an unbalanced emotion poised between fear and love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everythingto his own advantage. Thou must live for another, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21279]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everythingto his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to livefor thyself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was probably one of the most memorable things. I'd say they're the best crowd for that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36550]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was probably one of the most memorable things. I'd say they're the best crowd for that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36550</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the approach to virtue there are many steps. [Lat., In virtute sunt multi adscensus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60774]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the approach to virtue there are many steps. [Lat., In virtute sunt multi adscensus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye;  Much sense the starkest madness.   'Tis the majority ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much madness is divinest sense To a discerning eye;  Much sense the starkest madness.   'Tis the majority    In this, as all, prevails     Assent, and you are sane;      Demur,--you're straightway dangerous,       And handled with a chain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42917]]></link><description><![CDATA[Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O these degenerate days! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48860]]></link><description><![CDATA[O these degenerate days!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What have they done to you my poor child? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27968]]></link><description><![CDATA[What have they done to you my poor child?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in milk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in milk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He wrote a lot of prescriptions and he kept a lot for himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36919]]></link><description><![CDATA[He wrote a lot of prescriptions and he kept a lot for himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This was a crisis for me. It was a sad time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30499]]></link><description><![CDATA[This was a crisis for me. It was a sad time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried on by other means. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Silence is argument carried on by other means.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He was dehydrated. He's been on his feet all day just like everybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40483]]></link><description><![CDATA[He was dehydrated. He's been on his feet all day just like everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew a very wise man that believed that . . . if a man were permitted to make all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3696]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew a very wise man that believed that . . . if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.   - Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun (2),]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"--and an echo ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13299]]></link><description><![CDATA[I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"--and an echo answered, "Where are they?"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   The gist of what Wycliffe has to say on every point is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6320]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of John Wycliffe, Reformer, 1384   The gist of what Wycliffe has to say on every point is practically this, that where the Church and the Bible do not agree, we must prefer the Bible; that where authority and conscience appear to be rival guides, we shall be much safer in following conscience; and that where the letter and the spirit seem to be in conflict, the spirit is above the letter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understandshimself is more intelligent. He who controls others ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21086]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who knows much about others may be learned, but he who understandshimself is more intelligent. He who controls others may be powerful, buthe who has mastered himself is mightier still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conjugal love, or the friendship of spouses, can persist even after sexual desires have weakened, withered, and disappeared.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63667]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best actors do not let the wheels show. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best actors do not let the wheels show.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel like I'm putting together a jigsaw puzzle. I have all these pieces of history of his story. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35440]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel like I'm putting together a jigsaw puzzle. I have all these pieces of history of his story. And I'm trying to assemble them into a complete package.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11403]]></link><description><![CDATA[Achieving life is not the equivalent of avoiding death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11403</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17365]]></link><description><![CDATA[... one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3059]]></link><description><![CDATA[To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Un-dish-cover the fish, or dishcover the riddle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweet is pleasure after pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweet is pleasure after pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the civil magistrates be Christians or members of the church, able to prophesy in the church of Christ, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6976]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the civil magistrates be Christians or members of the church, able to prophesy in the church of Christ, ... they are bound by the command of Christ to suffer opposition to their doctrine with meekness and gentleness, and to be so far from striving to subdue their opposites with the civil sword, that they are bound with patience and meekness to wait if God peradventure will please to grant repentance unto their opposites...   The sword may make a whole nation of hypocrites. But to recover a soul from Satan by repentance, and to bring them from anti-Christian doctrine or worship to the Christian doctrine and worship, in the least true internal or external submission, is only worked by the all-powerful God through the sword of the Spirit in the hand of His spiritual officers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1456]]></link><description><![CDATA[The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27439]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I happen to think it's safer having the people out of the token booths than in the token booths. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I happen to think it's safer having the people out of the token booths than in the token booths. When they're circulating, they're much more, you know, 'eyes and ears' than when they're stuck in a booth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the addition of Web access to our free package of basic services and the planned acceleration of our highly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31396]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the addition of Web access to our free package of basic services and the planned acceleration of our highly successful subscriber acquisition program, we hope to be providing Web access to more individuals than any ISP or online service other than America Online before too much longer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57074]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18839]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Native American grandfather talking to his young grandson tells the boy he has two wolves inside of him struggling with each other. The first is the wolf of peace, love and kindness. The other wolf is fear, greed and hatred. "Which wolf will win, grandfather?" asks the young boy. "Whichever one I feed," is the reply.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18839</guid></item></channel></rss>