<?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[No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64182]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65091]]></link><description><![CDATA[My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[and once it leaves their hands it's someone else's problem. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34743]]></link><description><![CDATA[and once it leaves their hands it's someone else's problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62446]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Westminster Abbey, or Victory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Westminster Abbey, or Victory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To relinquish any of the Psalms on the excuse that its sentiments are too violent for a Christian is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6402]]></link><description><![CDATA[To relinquish any of the Psalms on the excuse that its sentiments are too violent for a Christian is a clear sign that a person has also given up the very battle that a Christian is summoned to fight. The Psalms are prayers for those who are engaged in an ongoing, spiritual conflict. No one else need bother even opening the book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense,  Old riddles still bid ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54837]]></link><description><![CDATA[But beyond the bright searchlights of science, Out of sight of the windows of sense,  Old riddles still bid us defiance,   Old questions of Why and of Whence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are all alike, on the inside. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66806]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are all alike, on the inside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64112]]></link><description><![CDATA[The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62552]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If any man shall have ears to hear, let him hear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48580]]></link><description><![CDATA[If any man shall have ears to hear, let him hear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41604]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We thought that by selling, we would have much more capital available to us to grow faster, and we thought ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42116]]></link><description><![CDATA[We thought that by selling, we would have much more capital available to us to grow faster, and we thought ultimately the company would be much more stable financially. It's turned out it's been the exact opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[The Stones] thought nothing of ... music, golf, football and girls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29290]]></link><description><![CDATA[[The Stones] thought nothing of ... music, golf, football and girls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1852]]></link><description><![CDATA[In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brightest of all things, the sun, hath its spots. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51023]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brightest of all things, the sun, hath its spots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the definition of a good wine? It should start and end with a smile. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61657]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the definition of a good wine? It should start and end with a smile.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32117]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the shadows of tree-trunks and shadows of leavesInterlace with low voices and footsteps and sunlightTo divide us forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55148]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54171]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62039]]></link><description><![CDATA[How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist Continuing a short series on authenticity:   There, right in the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8507]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist Continuing a short series on authenticity:   There, right in the middle of our lives, is that which satisfies the craving for inequality, and acts as a permanent reminder that medicine is not food. Hence a man's reaction to Monarchy is a kind of test. Monarchy can easily be "debunked"; but watch the faces, mark well the accents, of the debunkers. These are the men whose tap-root in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach -- men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Yet even if they desire mere equality, they cannot reach it. Where men are forbidden to honour a king, they honour millionaires, athletes, or film-stars instead: even famous prostitutes or gangsters. For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47061]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Belief is best when uncomplicated by reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15045</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[The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27820]]></link><description><![CDATA[The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. - Real Presences, 1989.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4753]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ass and the Frogs AN ASS, carrying a load of wood, passed through a pond. As hewas crossing through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1509]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ass and the Frogs AN ASS, carrying a load of wood, passed through a pond. As hewas crossing through the water he lost his footing, stumbled andfell, and not being able to rise on account of his load, groanedheavily. Some Frogs frequenting the pool heard his lamentation,and said, What would you do if you had to live here always as wedo, when you make such a fuss about a mere fall into the water?Men often bear little grievances with less courage thanthey do large misfortunes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a symbolic act on her part recognizing that the person who represents the Queen as the commander-in-chief of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38462]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a symbolic act on her part recognizing that the person who represents the Queen as the commander-in-chief of the Canadian Forces doesn't want to be in a position where anyone might say she has divided loyalties. I don't believe for a second she would have had them, but symbols are important.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Praise a hill, but keepe below. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Praise a hill, but keepe below.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46051]]></link><description><![CDATA[When people bother you in any way, it is because their souls are trying to get your divine attention and your blessing]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52250]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24757]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24757</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42537]]></link><description><![CDATA[One of the experts bought his first piece at the age of four, so they did start very young, most of them. They did it out of genuine interest but today's kids are much more materialistic and there's a danger, I suppose, that they might just be out to make dosh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nail in the wound. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48529]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nail in the wound.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot command nature except by obeying her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43836]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot command nature except by obeying her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16819]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10215]]></link><description><![CDATA[For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is theend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22381]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is theend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57014]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one in this world, so far as I know- and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me- has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34493]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been coming to Los Angeles since 1975 to perform.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Under the proposal] Ms Arroyo is at the same time president and one who consolidates the powers of prime minister ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31114]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Under the proposal] Ms Arroyo is at the same time president and one who consolidates the powers of prime minister in her hands, which includes the power to dissolve parliament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53115]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'll not listen to reason. . . . Reason always means what someone else has got to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46385]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will be seen in the frying of the eggs. [Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54042]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will be seen in the frying of the eggs. [Sp., Al freir de los huevos lo vera.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6026]]></link><description><![CDATA[They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and their kind-hearted jokes, it would only make me want to scream all the more. If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off; when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous; rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6026</guid></item></channel></rss>