<?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[When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46789]]></link><description><![CDATA[When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are uneasy, . . . you never sailed with me before, I see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15514]]></link><description><![CDATA[You are uneasy, . . . you never sailed with me before, I see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15514</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1042]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought he was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises. [Speaking Of Winston Churchill].]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal, O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal?  Or rob ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17199]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shall I, like Curtius, desperate in my zeal, O'er head and ears plunge for the common weal?  Or rob Rome's ancient geese of all their glories,   And cackling save the monarchies of Tories?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3820]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-conceit may lead to self destruction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14463]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19683]]></link><description><![CDATA[People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10900]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20244]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20244</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each one to his own trade; then would the cows be well cared for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2243]]></link><description><![CDATA[The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where there is no imagination there is no horror. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where there is no imagination there is no horror.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12608]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst reconciliation is better than the best divorce]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12608</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58655]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When the same man, or set of men, holds the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47186]]></link><description><![CDATA[When the same man, or set of men, holds the sword and the purse, there is an end of liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32009]]></link><description><![CDATA[True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the civil magistrates be Christians or members of the church, able to prophesy in the church of Christ, ... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6976]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the civil magistrates be Christians or members of the church, able to prophesy in the church of Christ, ... they are bound by the command of Christ to suffer opposition to their doctrine with meekness and gentleness, and to be so far from striving to subdue their opposites with the civil sword, that they are bound with patience and meekness to wait if God peradventure will please to grant repentance unto their opposites...   The sword may make a whole nation of hypocrites. But to recover a soul from Satan by repentance, and to bring them from anti-Christian doctrine or worship to the Christian doctrine and worship, in the least true internal or external submission, is only worked by the all-powerful God through the sword of the Spirit in the hand of His spiritual officers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diebold controls 20% of the nation's voting machines..totals can apparently be manipulated from outsidethe voting area.(on Diane Rehm Show)http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47666]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diebold controls 20% of the nation's voting machines..totals can apparently be manipulated from outsidethe voting area.(on Diane Rehm Show)http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/votefraud.html.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, it happens. I'm playing like an All Star, and I know I'm one of the elite players, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35774]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, it happens. I'm playing like an All Star, and I know I'm one of the elite players, so if I don't get picked, in my mind I'm still one of them. If I don't go, then I get to work out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23342]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of our political writers . . . take notice of any more than three estates, namely, Kings, Lords and Commons . . . passing by in silence that very large and powerful body which form the fourth estate in the community . . . the Mob.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29579]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a tremendous honor and a great responsibility to follow in Tim Taylor's footsteps as head hockey coach at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39695]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a tremendous honor and a great responsibility to follow in Tim Taylor's footsteps as head hockey coach at Yale. His impact on Yale, Yale Hockey, and me personally has been profound. I enthusiastically embrace the challenge of building upon his legacy while taking the Yale Hockey program to the next level.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23445]]></link><description><![CDATA[Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23445</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A client twixt his attorney and counselor is like a goose twixt two foxes ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8880]]></link><description><![CDATA[A client twixt his attorney and counselor is like a goose twixt two foxes]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The priorities would have remained the same ? first medical care, then law enforcement alert. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39557]]></link><description><![CDATA[The priorities would have remained the same ? first medical care, then law enforcement alert.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To be adult is to be alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25469]]></link><description><![CDATA[To be adult is to be alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Washington--a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, beneficent light. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61257]]></link><description><![CDATA[Washington--a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, beneficent light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45103]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not find them, they will make them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new;  Ah! still awhile the old ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59211]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new;  Ah! still awhile the old thought retain,   And yet consider it again!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59211</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6221]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330  The heart's slavish and dogged devotion to its idol is what fathers of the Church have called "the bondage of the will". This bondage becomes most painfully apparent in our lives when we earnestly feel the need of changing but cannot; when we are attracted to another value that for one reason or another conflicts with the desires of our true god --that value nearest and dearest to us. But our true god lies so deeply inside us that often we are not even consciously aware of its presence or of what it actually is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16871]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62097]]></link><description><![CDATA[To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazingly, given that this was a very intense fire and a large fire and that you're talking about senior citizens, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34392]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amazingly, given that this was a very intense fire and a large fire and that you're talking about senior citizens, everyone self-evacuated except for one woman the police escorted out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34392</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12789]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54057]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man retires, his wife gets twice the husband but only half the income.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some people think that meditation takes time away from physicalaccomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people,however, find ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21476]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some people think that meditation takes time away from physicalaccomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people,however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not surprised by the intensity, I didn't have to play it up to my girls at all. They knew ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34501]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not surprised by the intensity, I didn't have to play it up to my girls at all. They knew how important this game was. I knew if both teams played at the top of their games, it could go either way. But the conditions do dictate the game a little.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9764]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55181]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased,  The which observed, a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48463]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased,  The which observed, a man may prophesy,   With a near aim, of the main chance of things    As yet not come to life, which in their seeds     And weak beginnings lie intreasured.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25181]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only by closing the ears of the soul, or by listening too intently to the clamors of the sense, that we become oblivious of their utterances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The closing years of life are like a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When it hurts to look back,m and you're too scared to look ahead, just look beside you and your best ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16833]]></link><description><![CDATA[When it hurts to look back,m and you're too scared to look ahead, just look beside you and your best friend will be there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12583]]></link><description><![CDATA[Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common. Celebrate it every day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't play what's there, play what's not there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10560]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't play what's there, play what's not there.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60328]]></link><description><![CDATA[Values provide perspective in the best of times and the worst]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60328</guid></item></channel></rss>