<?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[Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was one of those deals where they had to spend it on somebody by Oct. 1 or give it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32074]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was one of those deals where they had to spend it on somebody by Oct. 1 or give it back.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32074</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20792]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is best to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20792</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Majority Leader DeLay is a fixture within the conservative movement and has a strong record of accomplishments, which makes him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Majority Leader DeLay is a fixture within the conservative movement and has a strong record of accomplishments, which makes him an inviting target for liberals and Democrats alike. It goes with the territory. He understands that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's always a shot in the locker. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51036]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's always a shot in the locker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14705]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That should keep them going for a while on the Ice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40007]]></link><description><![CDATA[That should keep them going for a while on the Ice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56238]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.   - Nathaniel Hawthorne,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Bear and the FoxA bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1528]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Bear and the FoxA bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body. A Fox hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear, Oh! that you would eat the dead and not the living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46883]]></link><description><![CDATA[So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49344]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53827]]></link><description><![CDATA[God never repents of what He has first resolved upon. [Lat., Nec unquam primi consilii deos peonitet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3437]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8823]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20923]]></link><description><![CDATA[It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  If the Holy Spirit can take over the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  If the Holy Spirit can take over the subconscious with our consent and cooperation, then we have almighty Power working at the basis of our lives, then we can do anything we ought to do, go anywhere we ought to go, and be anything we ought to be. Life is supplied with a basic adequacy... The conscious mind determines the actions, the unconscious mind determines the reactions; and the reactions are just as important as the actions. Many Christians are Christians in their actions -- they don't lie, steal, commit adultery, or get drunk; but they react badly to what happens to them: they react in anger, bad temper, self-pity, jealousy, and envy... When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20420]]></link><description><![CDATA[The living man who does not learn, is dark, dark, like one walking in the night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Walking breaks down all the barriers you become part of one common mass of humanity, ... global message of peace ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Walking breaks down all the barriers you become part of one common mass of humanity, ... global message of peace and compassion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did–in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65720]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I die, I want to go peacefully like my grandfather did–in his sleep. Not yelling and screaming like the passengers in his car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66826]]></link><description><![CDATA[What light is to the eyes - what air is to the lungs - what love is to the heart, liberty is to the soul of man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Theology is Anthropology. [Ger., Die Theologie ist die Anthropologie.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12635]]></link><description><![CDATA[Theology is Anthropology. [Ger., Die Theologie ist die Anthropologie.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44465]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ram thou fruitful tidings in mine ears, That long time have been barren.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13593]]></link><description><![CDATA[The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9246]]></link><description><![CDATA[Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only those who try to live near God and have formed the habit of faithfulness to Him in the small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7876]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only those who try to live near God and have formed the habit of faithfulness to Him in the small things of our daily life, can hope in times of need for that special light which shows us our path. To do as well as we can the job immediately before us, is the way to learn what we ought to do next.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46921]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46921</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These arrests make absolutely clear the presence throughout Europe and in Spain of members or collaborators of radical Islamic terrorist ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29318]]></link><description><![CDATA[These arrests make absolutely clear the presence throughout Europe and in Spain of members or collaborators of radical Islamic terrorist organizations, and that is a cause for continuing concern,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54483]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am the State. [Fr., L'etat c'est moi.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63910]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63910</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53959]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53959</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A compliment is verbal sunshine ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9259]]></link><description><![CDATA[A compliment is verbal sunshine]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/898]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18392]]></link><description><![CDATA["Oh! what a vile and abject thing is man unless he can erect himself above humanity." Here is a bon mot and a useful desire, but equally absurd. For to make the handful bigger than the hand, the armful bigger then the arm, and to hope to stride further than the stretch of our legs, is impossible and monstrous. . . . He may lift himself if God lend him His hand of special grace; he may lift himself . . . by means wholly celestial. It is for our Christian religion, and not for his Stoic virtue, to pretend to this divine and miraculous metamorphosis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9571]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gloomy as night he stands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gloomy as night he stands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41521]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one knows what cuases an outer landscape to become an inner one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high;  "I drink to one," he said, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59413]]></link><description><![CDATA[St. Leon raised his kindling eye, And lifts the sparkling cup on high;  "I drink to one," he said,   "Whose image never may depart,    Deep graven on this grateful heart,     Till memory be dead."      . . . .       St. Leon paused, as if he would        Not breathe her name in careless mood         Thus lightly to another;          Then bent his noble head, as though           To give the word the reverence due,            And gently said, "My mother!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49994]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The immortal swan that did her life deplore. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58448]]></link><description><![CDATA[The immortal swan that did her life deplore.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54692]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1745]]></link><description><![CDATA[I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8886]]></link><description><![CDATA[A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8886</guid></item><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></channel></rss>