<?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[It is a priority. In states where the statute calls for victims of crime to retreat, we think that that's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29262]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a priority. In states where the statute calls for victims of crime to retreat, we think that that's wrong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46814]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25806]]></link><description><![CDATA[In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that goes softly goes safely. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50985]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that goes softly goes safely.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4056]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17145]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it.   - George Washington,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Read my little fable: He that runs may read.  Most can raise the flowers now,   For all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46]]></link><description><![CDATA[Read my little fable: He that runs may read.  Most can raise the flowers now,   For all have got the seed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64006]]></link><description><![CDATA[I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23503]]></link><description><![CDATA[A judge's duty is to grant justice, but his practice is to delay it: even those judges who know their duty adhere to the general practice. [Fr., Le devoir des juges est de rendre justice, leur metier est de la differer; quelques uns savent leur devoir, et font leur metier.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2943]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh! happy are the apples when the south winds blow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust is the most important thing in any sort of relationship. If you don't find then build an invisible wall ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63049]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust is the most important thing in any sort of relationship. If you don't find then build an invisible wall between people and say only those things which they deserve to hear, but don't break relations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alec Issigonis (we refuse to use the plutocratic terms 'sir' or 'doctor') said a camel is a horse designed by committee. If it was God's committeefor an animal adapted to communities without water..it was a divine consensus.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66383]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am who I am and I say what I think. I'm not putting a face on for the record.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47411]]></link><description><![CDATA[Governments will always misuse the machinery of the law as far as the state of public opinion permits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar,  Along the Psalmist's music deep,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56622]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar,  Along the Psalmist's music deep,   Now tell me if that any is.    For gift or grace, surpassing this--     "He giveth His beloved sleep."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the night shall be filled with music And the cares, that infest the day,  Shall fold their tents, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44530]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the night shall be filled with music And the cares, that infest the day,  Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,   And as silently steal away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poverty of course is no disgrace, but it is damned annoying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In most countries, if you have drugs in your possession, in your suitcase or on you, the fact that you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33676]]></link><description><![CDATA[In most countries, if you have drugs in your possession, in your suitcase or on you, the fact that you don't know about it or you were set up or you're carrying someone else's bag -- that is no excuse whatsoever and you're gonna be sentenced to the full extent of the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We found that time was late and we saw that the matters will need another day in order to reach ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36219]]></link><description><![CDATA[We found that time was late and we saw that the matters will need another day in order to reach results that please everyone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A noble heart will always capitulate to reason. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53123]]></link><description><![CDATA[A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it doth singe yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it doth singe yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20575]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imitation is suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20575</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977  Prodigal sons, forgiven and reconciled with their heavenly Father, could ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7057]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda, Martyr, 1977  Prodigal sons, forgiven and reconciled with their heavenly Father, could they do other than forgive one another? A fellowship of prodigal sons came into being -- the church of Christ. Love begets love. A new power ... was let loose upon our suffering world, the power to love those who have not deserved love, the unworthy, the unlovely and unlovable, a man's enemies, and even his torturers. Christians, in imitation of the Saviour, became, as it were, Christs to one another and to the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation. -King John. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55780]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm Jimmy Carter, and I'm going to be your next president. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48144]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm Jimmy Carter, and I'm going to be your next president.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.  O poor Robinson Crusoe! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43040]]></link><description><![CDATA[He made him a hut, wherein he did put The carcass of Robinson Crusoe.  O poor Robinson Crusoe!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49359]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil,  And Fear her danger; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil,  And Fear her danger; opens a new world   When this, the present, palls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44288]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/520]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/520</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man dies - Not every man really lives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man dies - Not every man really lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it'll be viewed as positive action. It might create buyers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29364]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it'll be viewed as positive action. It might create buyers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24760]]></link><description><![CDATA[A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science) [Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54813]]></link><description><![CDATA[Philosophy is true mother of the arts. (Science) [Lat., Philosophia vero omnium mater artium.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boy Hunting LocustsA boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1513]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boy Hunting LocustsA boy was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached out his hand to take him. The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Boast during the day; be humble at night. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44536]]></link><description><![CDATA[Boast during the day; be humble at night.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many things catches your Eyes, try to get it.But one thing catches your Heart ...Pursue it.. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many things catches your Eyes, try to get it.But one thing catches your Heart ...Pursue it..]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6861]]></link><description><![CDATA[[Johannes] Brahms chose his own texts [for his German Requiem] from Luther's Bible to illustrate the Protestant conviction that man must hear and respond to God's word in man's own language, and that every believer must be free to deal with the Biblical text apart from priestly veto... For the word "German" he would gladly have substituted the word "human" because he was concerned to comment on "the primary text of human existence," finding there, as in the Bible, the universal themes of suffering and joy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've bent over backwards to make this bill acceptable to the president, ... We also listened to the president and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33669]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've bent over backwards to make this bill acceptable to the president, ... We also listened to the president and made some bothersome changes to the bill to accommodate his concerns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23351]]></link><description><![CDATA[The press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The artist envies what the arties gains, The bard the rival bard's successful strains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[That position, Abrams said, led Miller's team to assume that Libby wasn't really keen on seeing Miller testify, no matter ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34943]]></link><description><![CDATA[[That position, Abrams said, led Miller's team to assume that Libby wasn't really keen on seeing Miller testify, no matter what Libby's lawyers implied--a hesitation that gave Miller pause.] He didn't call. He didn't write, ... you draw certain conclusions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2588]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48335]]></link><description><![CDATA[Professionalism is environmental. Amateurism is anti environmental. Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of the ground rules of society. The amateur can afford to loose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not exchange for the treasures of India. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53010]]></link><description><![CDATA[My early and invincible love of reading, . . . I would not exchange for the treasures of India.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9913]]></link><description><![CDATA[In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47125]]></link><description><![CDATA[How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65650]]></link><description><![CDATA[War paralyzes your courage and deadens the spirit of true manhood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65650</guid></item></channel></rss>