<?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[I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16431]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A harmless necessary cat. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55600]]></link><description><![CDATA[A harmless necessary cat. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bishop in Strathclyde & Cumbria, 603   [He said:] that our sanctification did not depend upon our changing our works, but upon our doing that for God' s sake which commonly we do for our own; that it was lamentable to see how many people mistook the means for the end, addicting themselves to certain works, which they performed very imperfectly, by reason of their human or selfish regards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2312]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,  And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18465]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gods Grow angry with your patience. 'Tis their care,  And must be yours, that guilty men escape not:   As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fox and the CrowA crow having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1598]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Fox and the CrowA crow having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in her beak. A Fox, seeing this, longed to possess the meat himself, and by a wily stratagem succeeded. How handsome is the Crow, he exclaimed, in the beauty of her shape and in the fairness of her complexion! Oh, if her voice were only equal to her beauty, she would deservedly be considered the Queen of Birds! This he said deceitfully; but the Crow, anxious to refute the reflection cast upon her voice, set up a loud caw and dropped the flesh. The Fox quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18266]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out  Full twenty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45442]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heart's ease! one could look for half a day Upon this flower, and shape in fancy out  Full twenty different tales of love and sorrow,   That gave this gentle name.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27748]]></link><description><![CDATA[Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence: it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65167]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house should derive dignity from the master, not the master from the house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are going to have a functioning and healthy democratic society, we need to be open to civil discourse. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35840]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are going to have a functioning and healthy democratic society, we need to be open to civil discourse. In other words, we have to be able to disagree without being disagreeable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those quick scores took the wind out of our players' sails. That was tough to overcome. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those quick scores took the wind out of our players' sails. That was tough to overcome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44531]]></link><description><![CDATA[I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48815]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher, it goes ill with the pitcher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59969]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52628]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality in a product or service is not what the supplier puts in. It is what the customer gets out and is willing to pay for. A product is not quality because it is hard to make and costs a lot of money, as manufacturers typically believe. This is incompetence. Customers pay only for what is of use to them and gives them value. Nothing else constitutes quality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is wiser to find out than to suppose ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22898]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is wiser to find out than to suppose]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wasn't affected by inflation -- I had nothing to inflate. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20838]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wasn't affected by inflation -- I had nothing to inflate.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much better to get wisdom than gold,    to choose understanding rather than silver! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33436]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much better to get wisdom than gold,    to choose understanding rather than silver!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resistthem-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resistthem-that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flownaturally forward in whatever way they like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were hoping to get a better handle on it. We knew the plume was fairly widespread. I think the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40496]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were hoping to get a better handle on it. We knew the plume was fairly widespread. I think the testing changed our perspective from looking for one source to looking for multiple sources.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Springes to catch woodcocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Springes to catch woodcocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Remember, happiness is a way of travel not a destination. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Remember, happiness is a way of travel not a destination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not worth twopence, (or I don't care twopence).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64771]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody picks on a strong man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31399]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody picks on a strong man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65667]]></link><description><![CDATA[The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65667</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42044]]></link><description><![CDATA[If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11335]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there is a God, man's immortality is certain. If not, Immortality would not be worth having.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60976]]></link><description><![CDATA[No matter who you vote for, the Government always gets in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65051]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Larger U.S. retailers have recognized for a number of years that the domestic market is mature. In order to grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Larger U.S. retailers have recognized for a number of years that the domestic market is mature. In order to grow sales, they have to look outside of the U.S.. China, however, is a big emerging opportunity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is fear in the market. People are scared to see the market going down. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28242]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is fear in the market. People are scared to see the market going down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long. (after his team had defeated Whitman ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57636]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long. (after his team had defeated Whitman 70-30)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34282]]></link><description><![CDATA[That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The other home run, that was a legit home run. I hung that ball, and he kind of crushed it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37633]]></link><description><![CDATA[The other home run, that was a legit home run. I hung that ball, and he kind of crushed it on me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48420]]></link><description><![CDATA[A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40597]]></link><description><![CDATA[My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The resolved minde hath no cares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49906]]></link><description><![CDATA[The resolved minde hath no cares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Social Security is truly a test of our values as Americans. Social Security is a fundamental promise that lifts half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55096]]></link><description><![CDATA[Social Security is truly a test of our values as Americans. Social Security is a fundamental promise that lifts half of our seniors out of poverty and helps millions of disabled Americans, widows and orphans. We owe Americans a better debate than we're having today. It's about time we do everything we can to keep the promise of Social Security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26092]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64587]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64587</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58596]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23880</guid></item></channel></rss>