<?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[Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29849]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29849</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43225]]></link><description><![CDATA[All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43225</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From little spark may burst a mighty flame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54045]]></link><description><![CDATA[From little spark may burst a mighty flame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54045</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a leader demonstrates competency, genuine concern for others, and admirable character, people will follow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9209]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a leader demonstrates competency, genuine concern for others, and admirable character, people will follow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9209</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My guess is you'll see stuff coming out this year, but it will go on longer than that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34579]]></link><description><![CDATA[My guess is you'll see stuff coming out this year, but it will go on longer than that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62357]]></link><description><![CDATA[All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The carrot being held out is, 'If you really help us.' It all depends on his level of cooperation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38284]]></link><description><![CDATA[The carrot being held out is, 'If you really help us.' It all depends on his level of cooperation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6483]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas the Apostle  We have still much to learn as to the laws according to which the mind and body act on one another, and according to which one mind acts on another; but it is certain that a great part of this mutual action can be reduced to general laws, and that the more we know of such laws, the greater our power to benefit others will be. When, through the operation of such laws, surprising events take place, [we may] cry out, ... "Such is the will of God," instead of setting ourselves to inquire whether it is the will of God to give us power to bring about or prevent such results; then our conduct is not piety but sinful laziness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6483</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13675]]></link><description><![CDATA[Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6415]]></link><description><![CDATA[Broadly speaking, I learned to recognize sin as the refusal to live up to the enlightenment we possess: to know the right order of values and deliberately to choose the lower ones: to know that, however much these values may differ with different people at different stages of spiritual growth, for one's self there must be no compromise with that which one knows to be the lower value.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People always make time to do the things they really want to do. -Anon. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59366]]></link><description><![CDATA[People always make time to do the things they really want to do. -Anon.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4165]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state, for a long period of time, has been undergoing a wrenching economic transformation. The reality is much grimmer than in other states.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48634]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48634</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Move him into the sun —Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Move him into the sun —Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even in France,Until this morning and this snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4818]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4818</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46805]]></link><description><![CDATA[A poet must leave traces of his passage, not proof.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56424]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2141]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6132]]></link><description><![CDATA[All His glory and beauty come from within, and there He delights to dwell, His visits there are frequent, His conversation sweet, His comforts refreshing; and His peace passing all understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We only pass when the opportunity rises. Everyone knows we do most of our work on the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29192]]></link><description><![CDATA[We only pass when the opportunity rises. Everyone knows we do most of our work on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3282]]></link><description><![CDATA[The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I never, with important air, In conversation overbear.  . . . .   My tongue within my lips ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10090]]></link><description><![CDATA[I never, with important air, In conversation overbear.  . . . .   My tongue within my lips I rein;    For who talks much must talk in vain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10090</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These broad evaluations of Iran as a present and growing threat highlight the truly perilous situation most Americans see outside ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31633]]></link><description><![CDATA[These broad evaluations of Iran as a present and growing threat highlight the truly perilous situation most Americans see outside our boarders. We haven't even finished one war and many already see the potential need for another.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63694]]></link><description><![CDATA[As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46189]]></link><description><![CDATA[No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old!  Of right choice food are his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23109]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old!  Of right choice food are his meals I ween,   In his cell so lone and cold.    . . . .     Creeping where no life is seen,      A rare old plant is the ivy green.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look not upon the wine when it is read, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look not upon the wine when it is read, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27681]]></link><description><![CDATA[A dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11481]]></link><description><![CDATA[Debt is a prolific mother of folly and of crime]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We go to the hospital twice a week. She has had bone marrow biopsies, four blood transfusions and numerous tests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40951]]></link><description><![CDATA[We go to the hospital twice a week. She has had bone marrow biopsies, four blood transfusions and numerous tests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose talk is of bullocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58603]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whose talk is of bullocks.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11283]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64627]]></link><description><![CDATA[Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes"; They will say, "Women don't have what it takes";]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. [Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51215]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. [Lat., Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming  Authority usurp'd, from God not given.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56598]]></link><description><![CDATA[Execrable son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming  Authority usurp'd, from God not given.   He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl,    Dominion absolute; that right we hold     By his donation; but man over men      He made not lord; such title to himself       Reserving, human left from human free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Turning these jests out of service, let us talk in good earnest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brabling Curres never want torne eares. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49164]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brabling Curres never want torne eares.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether woodcock or partridge, what does it signify, if the taste is the same? But the partridge is dearer, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether woodcock or partridge, what does it signify, if the taste is the same? But the partridge is dearer, and therefore thought preferable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can't communicate. I don't speak Japanese and he doesn't speak English. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39975]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can't communicate. I don't speak Japanese and he doesn't speak English.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth,  I've a wife that I love and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth,  I've a wife that I love and that loves me;   I've all but riches bodily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53656]]></link><description><![CDATA[Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53656</guid></item></channel></rss>