<?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[Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43807]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15238]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice. Your circumstance can affect it, but you're still the one who decides your happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is a choice. Your circumstance can affect it, but you're still the one who decides your happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is born to seek power, yet his actual condition makes him a slave to the power of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despair ruins some, presumption many. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despair ruins some, presumption many.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10754]]></link><description><![CDATA[Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are six people in the race. There are jumps, turns and rollers and some huge jumps. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36942]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are six people in the race. There are jumps, turns and rollers and some huge jumps.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15444]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62998]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times; they can only make you stronger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even Pain pricks to livelier living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26836]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even Pain pricks to livelier living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He without fear is king of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44206]]></link><description><![CDATA[He without fear is king of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Oakies left Oklahoma and moved to California, it raised the I.Q. of both states.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is not always possible to know what one has learned, or when the dawning will arrive. You will continue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9499]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is not always possible to know what one has learned, or when the dawning will arrive. You will continue to shift, sift, to shake out and to double back. The synthesis that finally occurs can be in the most unexpected place and the most unexpected time. My charge ... is to be alert to the dawnings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["What is a church?"--Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8672]]></link><description><![CDATA["What is a church?"--Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52064]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64177]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64177</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[The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42322]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Beauty has a lot to do with character. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Beauty has a lot to do with character.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20665]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57640]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The balance of nature is reached when heating the house costs as much as going south for the winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3672]]></link><description><![CDATA[The balance of nature is reached when heating the house costs as much as going south for the winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8847]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50065]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man sleepes, his head is in his stomach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50065</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10080]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come;  And health from either--he in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Temp'rate in every place--abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come;  And health from either--he in time prepares   For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16246]]></link><description><![CDATA[And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Before God can deliver us from ourselves, we must undeceive ourselves.” ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65822]]></link><description><![CDATA[Before God can deliver us from ourselves, we must undeceive ourselves.”]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world will not be saved merely because people go to church, ours or any other's. If we seem to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7885]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world will not be saved merely because people go to church, ours or any other's. If we seem to say [that the world will be so saved] to the tormented nations, this is only a measure of our failure to see that the Anglican Communion is not an end in itself. And what an impertinence it is when we fail to see that -- when we seem to say to the world that their only hope is in the tepid conventions of our club.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4738]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who borrows sells his freedom]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily.  This wol be done ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ther n' is no werkman whatever he be, That may both werken wel and hastily.  This wol be done at leisure parfitly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breaking a glass in the Northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breaking a glass in the Northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all options are closed before the Palestinians to get their rights, then only God knows what the Palestinians would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all options are closed before the Palestinians to get their rights, then only God knows what the Palestinians would do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are taking all precautionary measures and the central government is giving us help. We are going to destroy all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29310]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are taking all precautionary measures and the central government is giving us help. We are going to destroy all the birds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can't say I could do all that they do; they are really motivated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28856]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can't say I could do all that they do; they are really motivated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To tolerant everything is too teach nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59429]]></link><description><![CDATA[To tolerant everything is too teach nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1044]]></link><description><![CDATA[The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing. 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing. 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;  But he that filches from me my good name   Robs me of that which not enriches him    And makes me poor indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19981]]></link><description><![CDATA[The natural man has only two primal passions: to get and beget.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Once you understand life----you understand life's potential. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25029]]></link><description><![CDATA[Once you understand life----you understand life's potential.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If no one is going to the malls, they're not going to advertise as much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34320]]></link><description><![CDATA[If no one is going to the malls, they're not going to advertise as much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  God is none other than the Saviour of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  God is none other than the Saviour of our wretchedness. So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities... Those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified him, but have glorified themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From thee all human actions take their springs, The rise of empires, and the fall of kings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17687]]></link><description><![CDATA[From thee all human actions take their springs, The rise of empires, and the fall of kings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare, ... People are telling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The biggest problem for most people is affording the health care they need, even with Medicare, ... People are telling us they can't afford to get the care they need, because Medicare supplemental policies are too expensive, medications are too expensive, and they are having trouble with special needs if they are in HMOs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53851]]></link><description><![CDATA[History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We feel comfortable lining him up against anyone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34080]]></link><description><![CDATA[We feel comfortable lining him up against anyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a long-term perspective, you don't react to every piece of news. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41561]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a long-term perspective, you don't react to every piece of news.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41561</guid></item></channel></rss>