<?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[Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54082]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51401]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh what a goodly outside falsehood hath!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He beat the bushes without taking the birds. [Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14930]]></link><description><![CDATA[He beat the bushes without taking the birds. [Fr., [Il] battoit les buissons sans predre les ozillons.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the spice of guilt, sin cannot be fully savored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The presidential vote in Peru is a matter of deep concern to us all, ... Left unexamined, it will certainly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40893]]></link><description><![CDATA[The presidential vote in Peru is a matter of deep concern to us all, ... Left unexamined, it will certainly diminish the credibility of this organization.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're kind of working it out. You're going to see a lot of the guests on the album [live on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32348]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're kind of working it out. You're going to see a lot of the guests on the album [live on stage].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore,-- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ghastly, grim, and ancient Raven, wandering from the Nightly shore,-- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!  Quoth the Raven "Nevermore!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26405]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.  His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19727]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great honours are great burdens, but on whom They are cast with envy, he doth bear two loads.  His cares must still be double to his joys,   In any dignity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  You go to your saint and find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8132]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Society of Jesus, 1556  You go to your saint and find God working and manifest in him. He got near to God by some saint of his that went before him, or that stood beside him, in whom he saw the divine presence. That saint again lighted his fire at some flame before him; and so the power of the sainthoods animates and fills the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14595]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have always enjoyed learning, and we accomplish a lot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36432]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have always enjoyed learning, and we accomplish a lot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience is the companion of wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience is the companion of wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes party loyalty asks too much ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15619]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes party loyalty asks too much]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15619</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58265]]></link><description><![CDATA[Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58265</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Country : Dolly Parton continues her roots revival with] Those Were the Days, ... Tough All Over. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35337]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Country : Dolly Parton continues her roots revival with] Those Were the Days, ... Tough All Over.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3327]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How God ever brings like to like. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9138]]></link><description><![CDATA[How God ever brings like to like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9138</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't accept the maxim 'there's no gain without pain', physical or emotional. I believe it is possible to develop ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48337]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't accept the maxim 'there's no gain without pain', physical or emotional. I believe it is possible to develop and grow with joy rather than grief. However, when the pain comes my way, I try to get the most growth out of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/863]]></link><description><![CDATA[One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64425]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13638]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49692]]></link><description><![CDATA[One graine fills not a sacke, but helpes his fellowes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49692</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27156]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27156</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day;  He cannot live, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13177]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day;  He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction,   But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey;    Although his anatomical construction     Bears vegetables, in a grumbling way,      Your laboring people think beyond all question,       Beef, veal, and mutton better for digestion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57079]]></link><description><![CDATA[...most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57079</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4143]]></link><description><![CDATA[For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36975]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The clock should have gone back to nine seconds instead of down to five, but I've got to hand it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38573]]></link><description><![CDATA[The clock should have gone back to nine seconds instead of down to five, but I've got to hand it to the other team. They were hungrier.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60099]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64381]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64381</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To live is to love; all reason is against it; instinct is for it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25832]]></link><description><![CDATA[To live is to love; all reason is against it; instinct is for it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The blessed London raid was a slap in the face of the arrogant, crusader British rulers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The blessed London raid was a slap in the face of the arrogant, crusader British rulers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59602]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many bad policies are simply good policies taken too far.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Despite repeated warnings from the commission and numerous consumer complaints, the company appears to have made no effort to mend ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39585]]></link><description><![CDATA[Despite repeated warnings from the commission and numerous consumer complaints, the company appears to have made no effort to mend its ways,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. [Lat., Tu si ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61602]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice. [Lat., Tu si animum vicisti potius quam animus te est quod gaudias.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30714]]></link><description><![CDATA[The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16280]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we plant a flower or a shrub and water it daily it will grow so tall that in time we shall need a spade and a hoe to uproot it. It is just so, I think, when we commit a fault, however small, each day, and do not cure ourselves of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56886]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words have ruined more souls than any devil's agency.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43120]]></link><description><![CDATA[All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53682]]></link><description><![CDATA[I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53682</guid></item></channel></rss>