<?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[Cleverness is not wisdom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8870]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cleverness is not wisdom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is the only gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is the only gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52250]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, that it cannot honor a helpless man, although it can pity him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63798]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am always fascinated by India. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35304]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am always fascinated by India.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53144]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25273]]></link><description><![CDATA[To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45416]]></link><description><![CDATA[Paint me as I am. If you leave out the scars and wrinkles, I will not pay you a shilling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Condemn the fault, but not the actor of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15788]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is -- I could be just as proud for half the money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64802]]></link><description><![CDATA[One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Charcoal-Burner and the FullerA CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Charcoal-Burner and the FullerA CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their housekeeping expenses would be lessened. The Fuller replied, The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal. Moral: Like will draw like.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It shall be so. Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21029]]></link><description><![CDATA[It shall be so. Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65695]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55992]]></link><description><![CDATA[The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. -King Henry VI. Part III. Act ii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53723]]></link><description><![CDATA["The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You're as likely to get through to him if you burble mindlessly at him whilst tossing geraniums standing on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17598]]></link><description><![CDATA[You're as likely to get through to him if you burble mindlessly at him whilst tossing geraniums standing on a garden gnome.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A free man is a jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/916]]></link><description><![CDATA[A free man is a jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54022]]></link><description><![CDATA[I shall need to sleep three weeks on end to get rested from the rest I've had.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61003]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would not vote for the mayor. It's not just because he didn't invite me to dinner, but because on my way into town from the airport there were such enormous potholes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61003</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The people inside the game know about Romeo and what he can do. To the Browns' credit, they saw it, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38175]]></link><description><![CDATA[The people inside the game know about Romeo and what he can do. To the Browns' credit, they saw it, too, and hired him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47244]]></link><description><![CDATA[What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23768]]></link><description><![CDATA[That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet at the resurrection we shall see A fair edition, and of matchless worth,  Free from erratas, new in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14091]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet at the resurrection we shall see A fair edition, and of matchless worth,  Free from erratas, new in heaven set forth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56909]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56909</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stressing output is the key to improving productivity, while looking to increase activity can result in just the opposite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52698]]></link><description><![CDATA[The falling out of faithful friends, renewing is of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47665]]></link><description><![CDATA[Politics: (noun) From Greek, poly, meaning many, and ticks, meaning bloodsuckers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209]]></link><description><![CDATA[Free livers on a small scale; who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16371]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better to remain silent and be thought a fool then to speak out and remove all doubt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42826]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But everyone is responsible for protecting children. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39425]]></link><description><![CDATA[But everyone is responsible for protecting children.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61373]]></link><description><![CDATA[And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61373</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would have liked that the wish for appeasement had prevailed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34957]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would have liked that the wish for appeasement had prevailed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9237]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20919]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but --a hatred of all injury.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26064]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26064</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7269]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Andrew the Apostle  Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence; it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We will probably not get appropriate numbers of volunteers just looking in largely underserved communities. We have to be creative. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38223]]></link><description><![CDATA[We will probably not get appropriate numbers of volunteers just looking in largely underserved communities. We have to be creative. ... We have to go to suburban units to assist us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4093]]></link><description><![CDATA[The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10019]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. -The Winter's Tale. Act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55776]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12515]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the Czar has a cold all Russia coughs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't marry the person you think you can live with; marry only the individual you think you can't live without.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46810]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63507]]></link><description><![CDATA[I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58087]]></link><description><![CDATA[Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58087</guid></item></channel></rss>