<?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[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59948]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59948</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Expressions of sharp and even violent criticism of religion and the church have been welcomed, for they usually imply sincerity of thought. If caustic criticism of religious institutions and practices is irreligious, then Amos, Isaiah, and Jesus were very irreligious men. In fact, that is exactly what many of their contemporaries took them to be.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34310]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;  So men were developed from monkeys of course,   Which nobody can deny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19226]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody, and to that person whatever he says has an enhanced value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11462]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since every death diminishes us a little, we grieve - not so much for the death as for ourselves]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11462</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37529]]></link><description><![CDATA[They allow schools to fit to kids instead of kids fitting to schools. Mandatory school assignment proves to have detrimental consequences to students.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make yourself necessary to somebody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44031]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make yourself necessary to somebody.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love and life are for to-day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50944]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love and life are for to-day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a reform. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations . . . can never effect a reform.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12825]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relief workers in New Orleans, the money they're paid is burning a hole in their pocket and they're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relief workers in New Orleans, the money they're paid is burning a hole in their pocket and they're going to spend it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12350]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25780]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the force that ignites the spirit and binds teams together.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61758]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43415]]></link><description><![CDATA[I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55098]]></link><description><![CDATA[Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lying lips are abomination to the Lord. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48640]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lying lips are abomination to the Lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48640</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45906]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is a militant state, which is not secured by wishful thinking.... If we are to be sure of our liberty, we must be ready to fight for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45906</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12612]]></link><description><![CDATA[God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60860]]></link><description><![CDATA[People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Picture of many colors proclaims images of many Thoughts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8956]]></link><description><![CDATA[A Picture of many colors proclaims images of many Thoughts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35937]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The thing that goest farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56684]]></link><description><![CDATA[The thing that goest farthest towards making life worth while, That costs the least, and does the most, is just a pleasant smile.  . . . .   It's full of worth and goodness too, with manly kindness blent,    It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brother, brother; we are both in the wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we did that, it would cost us more money, ... There's no advantage. Believe me, we've looked at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36339]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we did that, it would cost us more money, ... There's no advantage. Believe me, we've looked at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try missing a couple of carpayments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21918]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you think nobody cares if you are alive, try missing a couple of carpayments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boredom: the desire for desires ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boredom: the desire for desires]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, self-effacing, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34941]]></link><description><![CDATA[I used to watch him practice. It was a sort of Jimmy Stewart style. Denis was a very soft-spoken, self-effacing, overly modest person who left many flashier lawyers in his wake as he persuaded judges and juries alike that what he said could be trusted and should carry the day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1150]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young person, to achieve, must first get out of his mind any notion either of the ease or rapidity of success. Nothing ever just happens in this world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13505]]></link><description><![CDATA[Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We voted on it, but that doesn't mean it went through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41153]]></link><description><![CDATA[We voted on it, but that doesn't mean it went through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The highest result of education is tolerance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13377]]></link><description><![CDATA[The highest result of education is tolerance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52912]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away, and that in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16021]]></link><description><![CDATA[Divert her eyes with pictures in the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16021</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any woman could act like a lady, and this behavior was interpreted as being submissive, demure, inhibited...Being a lady in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any woman could act like a lady, and this behavior was interpreted as being submissive, demure, inhibited...Being a lady in the Western world was like footbinding in China.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11436]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church has failed to follow her appointed pathway of separation, holiness, heavenliness and testimony to an absent but coming ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6339]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church has failed to follow her appointed pathway of separation, holiness, heavenliness and testimony to an absent but coming Christ; she has turned aside from that purpose to the work of civilizing the world, building magnificent temples, and acquiring earthly power and wealth, and, in this way, has ceased to follow in the footsteps of Him who had not where to lay His head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11821]]></link><description><![CDATA[The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42902]]></link><description><![CDATA[He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate;  For greatest scandal ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate;  For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54904]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42238]]></link><description><![CDATA[You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20592]]></link><description><![CDATA[To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20592</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30723]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evil that men do lives on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30723</guid></item></channel></rss>