<?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[A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintained as gained,  And he that stands upon ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19172]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand Must be as boisterously maintained as gained,  And he that stands upon a slippery place   Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24379]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They wanted a ransom at that point. Other than that, they handed him over to another group. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40945]]></link><description><![CDATA[They wanted a ransom at that point. Other than that, they handed him over to another group.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9073]]></link><description><![CDATA[Each mind is pressed, and open every ear, to hear new tidings, though they no way joy us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To sit in judgmentof those things which you perceive to be wrong orimperfect is to be one more person who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21516]]></link><description><![CDATA[To sit in judgmentof those things which you perceive to be wrong orimperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil orimperfection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21516</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;  The thing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16174]]></link><description><![CDATA[They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin;  The thing the which is flattered, but a spark   To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing;    Whereas reproof, obedient and in order,     Fits kings as they are men, for they may err.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63980]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47047]]></link><description><![CDATA[A criminal trial is like a Russian novel: it starts with exasperating slowness as the characters are introduced to a jury, then there are complications in the form of minor witnesses, the protagonist finally appears and contradictions arise to produce drama, and finally as both jury and spectators grow weary and confused the pace quickens, reaching its climax in passionate final argument.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it for certain that everyone is going to be a victim? The answer is no. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39715]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it for certain that everyone is going to be a victim? The answer is no.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Touch a scientist and you touch a child. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Touch a scientist and you touch a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3884]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like feather-bed betwixt a wall And heavy brunt of cannon ball.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65758]]></link><description><![CDATA[One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday Beginning a short series on forgiveness:   Turn your eyes full upon yourselves, and see if you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6768]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ash Wednesday Beginning a short series on forgiveness:   Turn your eyes full upon yourselves, and see if you cannot discover the same fault [that you would judge in another] in yourselves, either in times past or now-a-days. And, if you find it, remember how that it is God's appointing that you shall now behold this sin in another, in order that you may be brought to acknowledge and repent of it; and amend your ways and pray for your brother, that God may grant him repentance and amendment according to His Divine Will. Thus a good heart draws amendment from the sins of others, and is guarded from all harsh judgment and wrath, and preserves an even temper; while an evil heart puts the worst interpretation on all that it sees, and turns it to its own hurt.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6768</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11580]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5343]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with cats is that they've got no tact.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just to cover the increase in fuel costs over the past two years, American would have had to raise fares ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35676]]></link><description><![CDATA[Just to cover the increase in fuel costs over the past two years, American would have had to raise fares nearly $75 per round-trip ticket. During this time period, our average fare increased by only $15.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19229]]></link><description><![CDATA[To a valet no man is a hero. [Ger., Es gibt fur den Kammerdiener keiner Helden.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45044]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45044</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25681]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are two ways of being rich. One is to have all you want, the other is to be satisfied ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63113]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are two ways of being rich. One is to have all you want, the other is to be satisfied with what you have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn`t what romantic songs tell us it is - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63289]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not a habit, a commitment, or a debt. It isn`t what romantic songs tell us it is - love simply is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25533]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56954]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56954</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8809]]></link><description><![CDATA[A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which  I find no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9807]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which  I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not  I've tried, alas! its power to prove,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/162]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis said that absence conquers love; But oh! believe it not  I've tried, alas! its power to prove,   But thou art not forgot.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60568]]></link><description><![CDATA[In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I welcome their demonstration. I support the First Amendment to the constitution. Everyone in this country has the right to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28770]]></link><description><![CDATA[I welcome their demonstration. I support the First Amendment to the constitution. Everyone in this country has the right to assembly and freedom of speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61129]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I am asked what we are fighting for, I can reply in two sentences. In the first place, to fulfil a solemn international obligation . . . an obligation of honor which no self-respecting man could possibly have repudiated. I say, secondly, we are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will of a strong and overmastering Power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[full partnership ... through close coordination and consultation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36812]]></link><description><![CDATA[full partnership ... through close coordination and consultation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36812</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56799]]></link><description><![CDATA[The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56799</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49815]]></link><description><![CDATA[The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These firms are still in foot-in-the-door mode. They aren't getting entire companies to outsource: They're getting divisions and bits and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34606]]></link><description><![CDATA[These firms are still in foot-in-the-door mode. They aren't getting entire companies to outsource: They're getting divisions and bits and pieces,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13991]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Republicans want local control and management of our schools, the president and the Democrats want Washington mandates. That's really ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33665]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Republicans want local control and management of our schools, the president and the Democrats want Washington mandates. That's really what it's all about,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43769]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43769</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61850]]></link><description><![CDATA[One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15953]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It isn't that we don't want to comply, but the sheriffs are saying they don't have the resources or ability ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35017]]></link><description><![CDATA[It isn't that we don't want to comply, but the sheriffs are saying they don't have the resources or ability to do it,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Put thyself into the trick of singularity. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Put thyself into the trick of singularity. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Patience and time do more than strength or passion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65877]]></link><description><![CDATA[Patience and time do more than strength or passion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62238]]></link><description><![CDATA[The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8216]]></link><description><![CDATA[As no scripture is of private interpretation, so is there no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone -- which is not, in some form or degree, in every human heart.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8216</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3022]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44174]]></link><description><![CDATA[The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds. - Means and Ends of Education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am more spontaneous than my character... ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35785]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am more spontaneous than my character...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35785</guid></item></channel></rss>