<?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[Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8790]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they are saying, let's stay here. And by their connection to the land, they are connected to one another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They never fail who die in a great cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21753]]></link><description><![CDATA[They never fail who die in a great cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every eight minutes, someone has sex with an animal...and you wonder why the attack you. Because of that man, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every eight minutes, someone has sex with an animal...and you wonder why the attack you. Because of that man, and its up to me and a half mexican to stop him!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a one way street. To get to where you're going, you have to go up this hill, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29152]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a one way street. To get to where you're going, you have to go up this hill, and people are looking at you like, don't you know that's one way?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55262]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you;  Who pours abundance o'er your flowing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Think, oh, grateful think! How good the God of Harvest is to you;  Who pours abundance o'er your flowing fields,   While those unhappy partners of you kind    Wide-hover round you, like the fowls of heaven,     And ask their humble dole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3165]]></link><description><![CDATA[All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of guilt. [Lat., Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of guilt. [Lat., Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis conscius.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/805]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1383]]></link><description><![CDATA[In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8755]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm leaving because the weather is too good. I hate London when it's not raining.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The soft speeches of the wicked are full of deceit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50847]]></link><description><![CDATA[The soft speeches of the wicked are full of deceit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They that know anything in this world know that, as the first great opposition of hell, the world, and corrupt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7015]]></link><description><![CDATA[They that know anything in this world know that, as the first great opposition of hell, the world, and corrupt nature, is against faith to God by Christ; so the next great opposition made against us, is against our love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38955]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I left I just played in rock bands, and started playing acoustic, washed dishes, but pretty much supported myself with music,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46712]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18109]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own.And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So tedious is this day As is the night before some festival  To an impatient child that hath new ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2760]]></link><description><![CDATA[So tedious is this day As is the night before some festival  To an impatient child that hath new robes   And may not wear them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13535]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave. -Henry Peter Broughan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Asian governments are making significant progress in the fight against poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Asian governments are making significant progress in the fight against poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Last night I had a revelationSomehow I have to make you payIt's all about manipulationAnd what it takes to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Last night I had a revelationSomehow I have to make you payIt's all about manipulationAnd what it takes to get my wayI don't believe in soft solutionsNo one makes a fool of meWithout receiving retributionNo one hurts me and goes freeI'll play on your fears, I'll leave you in tearsYou'll never be the same, my friendYou're walking a line, it's a matter of timeYou'll never rest easy againI've got the power to bring you downI've heard it said, to err is humanIt's forgiveness that's divineI thought about forgiving you, butI want revenge, I want what's mineI think it's time to settle scores nowIt's time to set the record straightYou'll know it's coming, you won't know howOr when, you'll have to watch and waitI'll play on your fears, I'll leave you in tearsYou'll never be the same, my friendYou're walking a line, it's a matter of timeYou'll never rest easy againI've got the power to bring you downYou know, it feels intoxicatingTo be intimidatingIt's invigoratingTo see you shakingI've got the power to bring you downYou know something, you see it coming, You know I will stop at nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24583]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pay the schoolmaster but 'tis the schoolboys who educate my son.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45241]]></link><description><![CDATA[The capital of the orator is in the bank of the highest sentimentalities and the purest enthusiasms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every book is a children's book if the kid can read! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7630]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Evelyn Underhill, Mystical Writer, 1941  Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not their capacity for meditation, but their capacity for suffering and love. For there is a hard and costly element, a deep seriousness, a crucial choice, in all genuine religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look back and thank God. Look forward and trust God. He closes doors no one can open and He opens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look back and thank God. Look forward and trust God. He closes doors no one can open and He opens doors no one can close.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47409]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land;  Here at our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44441]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land;  Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand   A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame    Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name     Mother of exiles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  God frees ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 1978  God frees our souls, not from service, not from duty, but into service and into duty; and he who mistakes the purpose of his freedom mistakes the character of his freedom. He who thinks that he is being released from the work, and not set free in order that he may accomplish that work, mistakes the condition into which his soul is invited to enter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1875]]></link><description><![CDATA[The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1875</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8802]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" -- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty and war itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64859]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Sidney Godophin," said Charles (II), "is never in the way and never out of the way." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55219]]></link><description><![CDATA["Sidney Godophin," said Charles (II), "is never in the way and never out of the way."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[640K ought to be enough for anybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9576]]></link><description><![CDATA[640K ought to be enough for anybody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fail your way to the top. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22329]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fail your way to the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flag of our Union forever! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16146]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flag of our Union forever!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I got tired of playing other people's songs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36143]]></link><description><![CDATA[I got tired of playing other people's songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63810]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2841]]></link><description><![CDATA[They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19683]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrible is the temptation to be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terrible is the temptation to be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is helping the child realize his potentialities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is helping the child realize his potentialities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53923]]></link><description><![CDATA[Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2806]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12339]]></link><description><![CDATA[A diplomat is a man who remembers a lady's birthday but forgets her age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66413]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19913]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44603</guid></item></channel></rss>