<?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[Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liar: One who tells an unpleasant truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom adapts itself to expediency ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10888]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom adapts itself to expediency]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.Of all the wonders that I yet ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,It seems to me most strange that men should fear,Seeing that death, a necessary end,Will come when it will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One swallow alone does not make the summer. [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58432]]></link><description><![CDATA[One swallow alone does not make the summer. [Sp., Una golondrina sola no hace verano.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58432</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We need every partner we can find. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33382]]></link><description><![CDATA[We need every partner we can find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Positive anything is better than negative nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Positive anything is better than negative nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never thrust your own sickle into another's corn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47128]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Benedick the married man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55419]]></link><description><![CDATA[Benedick the married man. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23226]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8033]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, often have I thought to myself, I will sin but this one sin more, and then I will repent of it, and of all the rest of my sins together. So foolish was I, and ignorant. As if I should be more able to pay my debts when I owe more: or as if I should say, I will wound my friend once again, and then I will lovingly shake hands with him -- but what if my friend will not shake hands with me?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears that radiation and winds from the massive star triggered new stars to form. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40970]]></link><description><![CDATA[It appears that radiation and winds from the massive star triggered new stars to form.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2027]]></link><description><![CDATA[When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cat may look like a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5310]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cat may look like a king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5310</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's extremely important for charitable organizations to make sure lawmakers have all the facts before them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's extremely important for charitable organizations to make sure lawmakers have all the facts before them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27032]]></link><description><![CDATA[The test of man is how well he is able to feel about what he thinks. The test of a woman is how well she is able to think about what she feels.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are pauses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24062]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most precious things in speech are pauses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57019]]></link><description><![CDATA[The acquiring of culture is the development of an avid hunger for knowledge and beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  God is none other than the Saviour of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7642]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Anne & Joachim, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary  God is none other than the Saviour of our wretchedness. So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities... Those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified him, but have glorified themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Custom meets us at the cradle and leaves us only at the tomb.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64819]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They certainly give very strange names to diseases. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43662]]></link><description><![CDATA[They certainly give very strange names to diseases.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47592]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom means freedom from forces and circumstances which would turn man into a thing, which would impose on man the passivity and predictability of matter. By this test, absolute power is the manifestation most inimical to human uniqueness. Absolute power wants to turn people into malleable clay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47592</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[Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21287]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21287</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contemporary theory... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27634]]></link><description><![CDATA[The purpose of the present course is the deepening and development of difficulties underlying contemporary theory...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47559]]></link><description><![CDATA[Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."N.B.: This quote refers to the British disarmament of the Indian Army. Gandhi never advocated the individual right to bear arms. - Gandhi, An Autobiography.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59153]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26477]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their quarterback can run and throw well. They have an end that has speed and their halfback is 215 pounds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their quarterback can run and throw well. They have an end that has speed and their halfback is 215 pounds so we have our hands full. They have several threats that we have to be aware of.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Although we have different ways of worshipping and doing things, we have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6466]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Charles Williams, Spiritual Writer, 1945  Although we have different ways of worshipping and doing things, we have only one God. So how can we claim to have... "Good News" unless people can see in us that Jesus Christ is breaking down barriers and bringing us together?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although it raine, throw not away thy watering pot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, if, as I think, writing should be, it's a kind of risky trade.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  [Dr. Johnson to a Quaker:] Oh, let us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8145]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796  [Dr. Johnson to a Quaker:] Oh, let us not be found, when our Master calls us, ripping the lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls and tongues.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to have a powerful earnings turn around this year to justify gains from current levels, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37130]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to have a powerful earnings turn around this year to justify gains from current levels,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48017]]></link><description><![CDATA[And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I purchased it with the thought that what better place to have it than at the school. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38598]]></link><description><![CDATA[I purchased it with the thought that what better place to have it than at the school.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flesh of thy flesh, nor yet bone of thy bone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60032]]></link><description><![CDATA[These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60032</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27275]]></link><description><![CDATA[A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time we hate that which we often fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18862]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time we hate that which we often fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20824]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weariness Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth  Finds the down pillow hard. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51244]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weariness Can snore upon the flint when resty sloth  Finds the down pillow hard.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11361]]></link><description><![CDATA[One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11361</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The books were very important to me as child. I was worried they'd try to modernize it. When I finally ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29225]]></link><description><![CDATA[The books were very important to me as child. I was worried they'd try to modernize it. When I finally agreed to meet them they said they wanted to be really faithful, too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29225</guid></item></channel></rss>