<?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[Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56404]]></link><description><![CDATA[Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56404</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When God will, no winde but brings raine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50072]]></link><description><![CDATA[When God will, no winde but brings raine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42070]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ant and the Dove AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, andbeing carried ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Ant and the Dove AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, andbeing carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point ofdrowning. A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water pluckeda leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her. The Antclimbed onto it and floated in safety to the bank. Shortlyafterwards a birdcatcher came and stood under the tree, and laidhis lime-twigs for the Dove, which sat in the branches. The Ant,perceiving his design, stung him in the foot. In pain thebirdcatcher threw down the twigs, and the noise made the Dovetake wing.One good turn deserves another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20785]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45284]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19795]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I draw most of my religious beliefs from Star Wars. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4087]]></link><description><![CDATA[I draw most of my religious beliefs from Star Wars.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4087</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43520]]></link><description><![CDATA[The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  If the wounds of millions are to be healed, what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7452]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Bridget of Sweden, Abbess of Vadstena, 1373  If the wounds of millions are to be healed, what other way is there except through forgiveness? Jesus, at least, leaves us no alternative. The command is stern. The terms are set: "But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25656]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one sort of love, but there are a thousand copies.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28376]]></link><description><![CDATA[People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot take solace from these figures as the upward revision to the core PCE deflator takes the year-on-year rate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32933]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot take solace from these figures as the upward revision to the core PCE deflator takes the year-on-year rate to 1.9 percent, up against the Fed's outer boundary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's common for fissures to occur, in the last days of any administration. Many leaders no longer feel beholden to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32950]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's common for fissures to occur, in the last days of any administration. Many leaders no longer feel beholden to the governor. They're also concerned about their next election -- and carrying the albatross of the previous administration.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32950</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[In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15484]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19760]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breaking his oath and resolution, like A twist of rotten silk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51239]]></link><description><![CDATA[Breaking his oath and resolution, like A twist of rotten silk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8306]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546  Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,  You ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9122]]></link><description><![CDATA[If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends,  You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse,   That it shall hold companionship in peace    With honour, as in war: since that to both     It stands in like request?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944   The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7591]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1944   The paleontological evidence before us today clearly demonstrates ordered progressive change with the successive development of new faunal and floral assemblages through the changing epochs of our earth's history. There should be no real conflict between science, which is the search for truth, and Christ's teachings, which I hold to be truth itself. It is only when scientists remove God from creation that the Christian is faced with an irreconcilable situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Start slow and taper off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/951]]></link><description><![CDATA[Start slow and taper off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Rising home values] are making people feel they don't need to save. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40340]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Rising home values] are making people feel they don't need to save.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3305]]></link><description><![CDATA[The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was glad she was done hitting me, but I didn't want her to hit anyone else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was glad she was done hitting me, but I didn't want her to hit anyone else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64384]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54159]]></link><description><![CDATA[The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56276]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under all speech that is good for anything three lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56276</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66190]]></link><description><![CDATA[Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63720]]></link><description><![CDATA[A living cell requires energy not only for all its functions, but also for the maintenance of its structure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw,  Like not to go off hungry, leaving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2538]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw,  Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love   To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2538</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62883]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haven't you ever been using an operating system and said, 'Well, that's stupid, why do the menus look like that?' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40468]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haven't you ever been using an operating system and said, 'Well, that's stupid, why do the menus look like that?']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10999]]></link><description><![CDATA[We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. [Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outride the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3922]]></link><description><![CDATA[Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop. [Set a beggar on horseback, and he'll outride the Devil.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59849]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait or a moment, or you'll lose your head.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59017]]></link><description><![CDATA[Women and cats do as they damned well please, and men and dogs had best learn to live with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1922]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lean agreement is better than a fat judgment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As we groan, so also does the Holy Spirit groan with us, putting a meaning into our aspirations which they ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6346]]></link><description><![CDATA[As we groan, so also does the Holy Spirit groan with us, putting a meaning into our aspirations which they would not have of themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6346</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33807]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you're trying to recreate habitat, you do it in hopes the amphibians can use it, and you have to manage it in hopes you keep the bullfrog from being successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24]]></link><description><![CDATA[The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10314]]></link><description><![CDATA[In order to discover new lands, one must be willing to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10314</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18033]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't run a government solely on a business basis ... Government should be human. It should have a heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more established you are in society, the more pageantry there tends to be at the weddings. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40132]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more established you are in society, the more pageantry there tends to be at the weddings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49115]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53250</guid></item></channel></rss>