<?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[Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16755]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not exactly convinced that this market is overly bullish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34705]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not exactly convinced that this market is overly bullish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44949]]></link><description><![CDATA[There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more that two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.   - Michael Eyquen de Montaigne,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave,  With ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18200]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down; Where a green grassy turf is all I crave,  With here and there a violet bestrown,   Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave;    And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[has destroyed the whole base of life for people and other creatures. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35608]]></link><description><![CDATA[has destroyed the whole base of life for people and other creatures.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18043]]></link><description><![CDATA[Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18043</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27735]]></link><description><![CDATA[A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain—then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15614]]></link><description><![CDATA[They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22896]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't ever let anybody teach you to think; it is the curse of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shelved around us lie The mummied authors. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shelved around us lie The mummied authors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object!  For this the foolish overcareful fathers   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17784]]></link><description><![CDATA[How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object!  For this the foolish overcareful fathers   Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care.    Their bones with industry.     For this they have engrossed and piled up      The cankered heaps of strange-achieved gold;       For this they have been thoughtful to invest        Their sons with arts and martial exercises.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are making changes that will increase the opportunity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are making changes that will increase the opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[misrepresented its own studies and the concerns of physicians suggesting the drug may increase the risk of heart problems. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35975]]></link><description><![CDATA[misrepresented its own studies and the concerns of physicians suggesting the drug may increase the risk of heart problems.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11097]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay in, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25006]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay in, the more wrinkled you get. -Robbert Oustin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Consider an enemy may become a friend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51135]]></link><description><![CDATA[Consider an enemy may become a friend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65983]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22462]]></link><description><![CDATA[In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47469]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it's good-by to the Bill of Rights.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55200]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/119]]></link><description><![CDATA[Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46720]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of the repentance that is likely to follow it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once a yeare a man may say: On his conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49683]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once a yeare a man may say: On his conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!   - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45785]]></link><description><![CDATA[One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!   - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60652]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60652</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52259]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be aware how fruitful the playful mood can be is to be immune to the propaganda of the alienated, which extols resentment as a fuel of achievement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix;  Every other thirty-one,   Except the second month ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix;  Every other thirty-one,   Except the second month alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heigh ho, heigh ho! / It's off to work we go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heigh ho, heigh ho! / It's off to work we go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground  but holds some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46689]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pleasures lie thickest where no pleasures seem; There's not a leaf that falls upon the ground  but holds some joy of silence or of sound,   Some sprite begotten of a summer dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Should old acquaintance be forgot, And never thought upon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16857]]></link><description><![CDATA[Should old acquaintance be forgot, And never thought upon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw her I as undone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51840]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw her I as undone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The game just came to me, I just relaxed a little bit and let it come to me. I've been ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36546]]></link><description><![CDATA[The game just came to me, I just relaxed a little bit and let it come to me. I've been hearing from all of the coaches that I go in spurts and stops, so tonight I got it in my head to just dominate the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3670]]></link><description><![CDATA[The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4512]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11073]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9907]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Constitution is not a panacea for every blot upon the public welfare, nor should this Court, ordained as a judicial body, be thought of as a general haven for reform movements.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11872]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66606]]></link><description><![CDATA[God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The defense, for myself and for those for whom I am responsible, must be a conscious defense. We cannot assume ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6749]]></link><description><![CDATA[The defense, for myself and for those for whom I am responsible, must be a conscious defense. We cannot assume that, because we are Christians, in the full biblical sense, and indwelt by the Holy Spirit, automatically we shall be free from the influence of what surrounds us. The Holy Spirit can do what He will, but the Bible does not separate His work from knowledge; nor does the work of the Holy Spirit remove our responsibility as parents, pastors, evangelists, missionaries, or teachers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63512]]></link><description><![CDATA[An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61685]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52824]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53523]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53523</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel pretty good about (the retirement) because frankly there are not too many guys in my business who can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29864]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel pretty good about (the retirement) because frankly there are not too many guys in my business who can do it. I feel grateful the university has been so good to me and my family. I have a chancellor that has been very supportive of me, and his cooperation on what I wanted to do and how I wanted to do it. I think that is very unique to have a situation like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then the nun-like twilight came, violent vestured and still, And the night's first star outshone afar on the eve of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then the nun-like twilight came, violent vestured and still, And the night's first star outshone afar on the eve of Bunker Hill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Frightful this is in a sense, but it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8090]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200   Frightful this is in a sense, but it is true, and every one who has merely some little knowledge of the human heart can verify it: there is nothing to which a man holds so desperately as to his sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27118]]></link><description><![CDATA[The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someones neck, and the guy screams and tries to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someones neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what is that thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is more hid in Christ than we shall ever learn, here or there either; but they that begin first ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8225]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is more hid in Christ than we shall ever learn, here or there either; but they that begin first to inquire will soonest be gladdened with revelation; and with them He will be best pleased, for the slowness of His disciples troubled Him of old. To say that we must wait for the other world, to know the mind of Him who came to this world to give Himself to us, seems to me the foolishness of a worldly and lazy spirit. The Son of God is the teacher of men, giving to them of His Spirit -- that Spirit which manifests the deep things of God, being to a man the mind of Christ. The great heresy of the Church of the present day is unbelief in this Spirit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8225</guid></item></channel></rss>