<?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[Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13490]]></link><description><![CDATA[It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say be parted well and paid his score, And so, God be with him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45574]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say be parted well and paid his score, And so, God be with him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45574</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12273]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26396]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While we are under the tyranny of Priests [...] it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34751]]></link><description><![CDATA[While we are under the tyranny of Priests [...] it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50476]]></link><description><![CDATA[One gets a cross for his crime, the other a crown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel:  I am the impact ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43796]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am a part of all you see In Nature: part of all you feel:  I am the impact of the bee   Upon the blossom; in the tree    I am the sap--that shall reveal     The leaf, the bloom--that flows and flutes      Up from the darkness through its roots.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43796</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's enough to send shivers down your spine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29169]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's enough to send shivers down your spine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29169</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11199]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24363]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never saw a lawyer yet who would admit he was making money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure insteadof having pain and pleasure use you. If ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure insteadof having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control ofyour life. If you don't, life controls you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for, his sins. One may passively be cast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8322]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for, his sins. One may passively be cast down by God's terrors, and yet not willingly throw himself down as he ought at God's footstool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54636]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54636</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous  Is that temptation ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58908]]></link><description><![CDATA[O cunning enemy that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook: most dangerous  Is that temptation that doth goad us on   To sin in loving virtue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1370]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you lose the entire front four, and they were all drafted by the NFL, it's easy to say you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29872]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you lose the entire front four, and they were all drafted by the NFL, it's easy to say you won't be any good, ... But when you really research it, you see those guys have played and they have the ability. The great thing about athletics is that what's written doesn't make any difference. It's what you do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quality of construction and the design excellence are the key ingredients that set the homes that bear our name apart. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35121]]></link><description><![CDATA[Quality of construction and the design excellence are the key ingredients that set the homes that bear our name apart. With our high level of customer service, we take a personal interest in every home we build.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13947]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of Aids than ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12492]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding in this great adventure in the world of Aids than I ever did in the cut-throat, competitive world in which I spent my life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46384]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellect is weak; it has no power except over what is as weak as itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16812]]></link><description><![CDATA[The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought the safetys and the cornerbacks would be a lot quicker and I didn't think they'd let us get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39889]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought the safetys and the cornerbacks would be a lot quicker and I didn't think they'd let us get over the top.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39889</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34178]]></link><description><![CDATA[Right now we're not going to cut anything back, because the schedules are already set. Sports participation is an important part of the whole educational concept, and if you don't have extracurricular things to do, some kids just don't make it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the longfingered sunreaches out to toucha cloistered trillium or a lake trembles inthe light of moon and starsso can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43492]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the longfingered sunreaches out to toucha cloistered trillium or a lake trembles inthe light of moon and starsso can a poet's long rainbowof wordsplay our heartstrings from afar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18229]]></link><description><![CDATA[A grave, wherever found, preaches a short and pithy sermon to the soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you 'tis true: Yet wildings of nature, I dote upon you,  For ye ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16258]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you 'tis true: Yet wildings of nature, I dote upon you,  For ye waft me to summers of old,   When the earth teem'd around me with fairy delight,    And when daisies and buttercups gladden'd my sight,     Like treasures of silver and gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All of the outages were related to winds. In some areas, the ground was so saturated that the wind knocked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32813]]></link><description><![CDATA[All of the outages were related to winds. In some areas, the ground was so saturated that the wind knocked trees over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[David went down in the second set, and the trainer came out and looked at him. I told him the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30269]]></link><description><![CDATA[David went down in the second set, and the trainer came out and looked at him. I told him the match wasn't worth getting hurt over. I think it was just pure guts on his part.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9570]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are pleased to be able to provide Boiling Springs Savings Bank with a first-class Identity and Trust Assurance solution ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42366]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are pleased to be able to provide Boiling Springs Savings Bank with a first-class Identity and Trust Assurance solution for its online customer base. Our Content Verification Certificate solution will allow Boiling Springs to maintain confidence and trust among its consumers thus increasing online transactional volume as well as build awareness that it is truly a leader in customer-care and security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65353]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can tell it all in song: pathos, gladness, love, joy, unhappiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is Ercles' vein. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55514]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is Ercles' vein. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58143]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, tho it be in the woods. And if a man knows the law, people will find it out, tho he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the prisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint landscape, and convey into oils and ochers all the enchantments of spring or autumn; or can liberate or intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses, 'tis certain that the secret can not be kept: the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48773]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22340]]></link><description><![CDATA[An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be rather than to seem. [Lat., Esse quam videri.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2803]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be rather than to seem. [Lat., Esse quam videri.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Check the beginning of evil; the remedy is too late when the disease by delay has increased in strength. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Check the beginning of evil; the remedy is too late when the disease by delay has increased in strength.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A base of support within your own community is expected. It's a lot easier to talk to people if your ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38642]]></link><description><![CDATA[A base of support within your own community is expected. It's a lot easier to talk to people if your own local investors have shown confidence in you. It provides credibility as well as some reciprocity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dog and the ShadowA DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1521]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Dog and the ShadowA DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size. He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece from him. He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an unskillful servant gathers many herbs, flowers, and seeds in a garden, you gather them out that are useful, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7359]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an unskillful servant gathers many herbs, flowers, and seeds in a garden, you gather them out that are useful, and cast the rest out of sight; so Christ deals with our performances. All the ingredients of self that are in them He takes away, and adds incense to what remains, and presents it to God. This is the cause that the saints at the last day, when they meet their own duties and performances, know them not, they are so changed from what they were when they went out of their hand. "Lord, when saw we Thee naked or hungry?" So God accepts a little, and Christ makes our little a great deal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27349]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27349</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27298]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not many artists commit suicide by leaping off the pinnacle of success. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not many artists commit suicide by leaping off the pinnacle of success.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15310</guid></item></channel></rss>