<?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[There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61187]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4147]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65375]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53616]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some minds are like concrete: thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who say nothing about their poverty will obtain more than those who turn beggars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're illegal, you have to work and go to your house. You can't make trouble because if the police ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29095]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're illegal, you have to work and go to your house. You can't make trouble because if the police catch you, you will be deported.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16256]]></link><description><![CDATA[The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, And violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16256</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's errors are what make him amiable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14176]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's errors are what make him amiable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20988]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen  Collect; with elbows idly press'd   On hob, reclines the corner's guest,    Reading the news to mark again     The bankrupt lists or price of grain.      Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe       He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe,        Yet, winter's leisure to regale,         Hopes better times, and sips his ale.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11006]]></link><description><![CDATA[We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I've invited some legislators but they just looked at me like I was weird. Obviously, I haven't asked the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41756]]></link><description><![CDATA[I've invited some legislators but they just looked at me like I was weird. Obviously, I haven't asked the right ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why is it, when your looking for that someone, you find no one, but, once you find it, a lot ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16045]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why is it, when your looking for that someone, you find no one, but, once you find it, a lot more choices start showing up? But, if you leave that first love, then, they all start drifting away? Is that love's way of testing your true feelings or to]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9723]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  I am not what I ought to be. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel & Henrietta Barnett, Social Reformers, 1913 & 1936  I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I want to be. I am not what I hope to be. But still, I am not what I used to be. And by the grace of God, I am what I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is to man a god or a wolf. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48960]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is to man a god or a wolf.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11819]]></link><description><![CDATA[When men talk about defense, they always claim to be protecting women and children, but they never ask the women and children what they think]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Busy bees chasedthe bloom chasteThough they crawled on herclothesher petals unfoldedand those held closestill ever faithful to the sunis the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Busy bees chasedthe bloom chasteThough they crawled on herclothesher petals unfoldedand those held closestill ever faithful to the sunis the everpure roseWhether her hueis violet or roseWhether she growsin freedom or rowsever to God in waves arosethe love perfumefrom the heart of the rose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And filled the air with barbarous dissonance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57293]]></link><description><![CDATA[And filled the air with barbarous dissonance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26320]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has their ups and downs, I decided to have mine between good and great! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has their ups and downs, I decided to have mine between good and great!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never lie to someone who trusts you, and never trust someone who lies to you!! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never lie to someone who trusts you, and never trust someone who lies to you!!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ItÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41434]]></link><description><![CDATA[ItÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â„Â¢s risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you come back from injuries like this the actual injury is fine - it's just nagging soreness coming back. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31570]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you come back from injuries like this the actual injury is fine - it's just nagging soreness coming back. I'm feeling good and close to 100 percent. If we feel that I'm ready, I'm going to go and give as much as I can. Hopefully that's the case.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14937]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has snuck into laboratories and zoos, found people with monkeys as pets. The story is amazing because of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37454]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has snuck into laboratories and zoos, found people with monkeys as pets. The story is amazing because of the extent he's gone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20176]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49391]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that seekes trouble never misses. [He that seeks trouble never misses.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  He who forgives not is not forgiven, and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647  He who forgives not is not forgiven, and the prayer of the Pharisee is as the weary beating of the surf of hell, while the cry of a soul out of its fire sets the heart-strings of Love trembling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54173]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50906]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time of sickness the soul collects itself anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;  Ours has severest virtue for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16854]]></link><description><![CDATA[The friendships of the world are oft Confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasure;  Ours has severest virtue for its basis,   And such a friendship ends not but with life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles,  Hangs silent on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27455]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis midnight now. The bend and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles,  Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24067]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The period which marked the enormous statistical success of the revival churches was also the period which saw membership standards ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6934]]></link><description><![CDATA[The period which marked the enormous statistical success of the revival churches was also the period which saw membership standards decline almost to the vanishing point. Today the [various denominations] don't even have enough authority to keep their members out of mob violence, let alone hold them to difficult standards of theological or ethical or moral excellence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6934</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22005]]></link><description><![CDATA[When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye  That bow'd the will. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye  That bow'd the will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches either serve or govern the possessor. [Lat., Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61397]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches either serve or govern the possessor. [Lat., Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44781]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a little gray house in a one-street town, And the door stands open, and the steps go down, And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42312]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a little gray house in a one-street town, And the door stands open, and the steps go down, And you prop up the window with a stick on the sill, And you carry spring water from the bottom of the hill; And the white star of Bethlehem grows in t]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Apathy is the glove into which evil slips its hand]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of mixed emotions. But that was 48 hours. After that 48 hours, I was able to reflect back ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32838]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of mixed emotions. But that was 48 hours. After that 48 hours, I was able to reflect back on 23 years. So I'm not going to let 48 hours spoil my fun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11770]]></link><description><![CDATA[At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent, Dentist," because you could save money on tooth X-rays. But then I thought, if a patient said, "How's my back tooth?" and you just looked at it with your X-ray vision and said, "Oh it's okay," then the patient would probably say, "Aren't you going to take an X-ray, stupid?" and you'd say, "Aw fuck you, get outta here," and then he probably wouldn't even pay his bill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have a lot of sympathy and we give him the maximum moral and technical support. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32603]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have a lot of sympathy and we give him the maximum moral and technical support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8978]]></link><description><![CDATA[Actually, this seems to be the basic need of the human heart in nearly every great crisis - a good hot cup of coffee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This kind of give-and-take lies at the heart of scientific progress and is precisely why scientific analyses are made available ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30739]]></link><description><![CDATA[This kind of give-and-take lies at the heart of scientific progress and is precisely why scientific analyses are made available in the open literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only so many people who will watch, or take up the game. Even if he won 10 Masters, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38619]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only so many people who will watch, or take up the game. Even if he won 10 Masters, you're not going to see a 30 percent increase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38619</guid></item></channel></rss>