<?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[Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63775]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are seriously looking at it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30775]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are seriously looking at it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It will identify most things that are truly dangerous. It will not find nail clippers or box cutters, but those ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30645]]></link><description><![CDATA[It will identify most things that are truly dangerous. It will not find nail clippers or box cutters, but those are legal. The 9/11 (terrorist attack) was not about box cutters, it was about (pilot) doors people could open.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18703]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16476]]></link><description><![CDATA[God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16476</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from thevalley. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from thevalley.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1871]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gardener's rule applies to youth and age: When young "sow wild oats," but when old, grow sage. -H. J. Byron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. [Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiamsi initio cautior fuerit, detegit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59632]]></link><description><![CDATA[Treachery, though at first very cautious, in the end betrays itself. [Lat., Ipsa se fraus, etiamsi initio cautior fuerit, detegit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  He was too great for his disciples. And in view of what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7780]]></link><description><![CDATA[THE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE  He was too great for his disciples. And in view of what he plainly said, is it any wonder that all who were rich and prosperous felt a horror of strange things, a swimming of their world at his teaching? Perhaps the priests and the rich men understood him better than his followers. He was dragging out all the little private reservations they had made from social service into the light of a universal religious life. He was like some terrible moral huntsman digging mankind out of the snug burrows in which they had lived hitherto. In the white blaze of this kingdom of his there was to be no property, no privilege, no pride and precedence; no motive indeed and no reward but love. Is it any wonder that men were dazzled and blinded and cried out against him? Even his disciples cried out when he would not spare them the light. Is it any wonder that the priests realized that between this man and themselves there was no choice but that he or priestcraft should perish? Is it any wonder that the Roman soldiers, confronted and amazed by something soaring over their comprehension and threatening all their disciplines, should take refuge in wild laughter, and crown him with thorns and robe him in purple and make a mock Caesar of him? For to take him seriously was to enter upon a strange and alarming life, to abandon habits, to control instincts and impulses, to essay an incredible happiness... Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50335]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cautious wolf fears the pit, the hawk regards with suspicion the snare laid for her, and the fish the hook in its concealment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53389]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16557]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We looked at a whole host of demographics in cities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37322]]></link><description><![CDATA[We looked at a whole host of demographics in cities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48220]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17184]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The generous heart Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51770]]></link><description><![CDATA[The generous heart Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4971]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It has been hard just getting back in the groove. I think we got in the groove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39494]]></link><description><![CDATA[It has been hard just getting back in the groove. I think we got in the groove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11418]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Food is an important part of a balanced diet. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3678]]></link><description><![CDATA[Food is an important part of a balanced diet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nature has always had more force than education. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64672]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nature has always had more force than education.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29528]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43010]]></link><description><![CDATA[The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33119]]></link><description><![CDATA[We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If all you've had for the past three weeks is pizza, tuna fish looks pretty good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41698]]></link><description><![CDATA[If all you've had for the past three weeks is pizza, tuna fish looks pretty good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2494]]></link><description><![CDATA[The brave are born from the brave and good. In steers and in horses is to be found the excellence of their sire; nor do savage eagles produce a peaceful dove. [Lat., Fortes creantur fortibus et bonis;  Est in juvenis, est in equibus patrum   Virtus; nee imbellem feroces    Progenerant aquilae columbam.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48104]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner, without visibly affecting the prejudice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48104</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's like the next Harry Potter book. You'll have to wait for it and be grateful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31564]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's like the next Harry Potter book. You'll have to wait for it and be grateful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13676]]></link><description><![CDATA[If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put  His violent Engins ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26691]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even as a Surgeon, minding off to cut Some cureless limb, before in use he put  His violent Engins on the vicious member,   Bringeth his Patient in a senseless slumber,    And grief-less then (guided by use and art),     To save the whole, sawes off th' infected part.   - Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He's just the most unbelievable person I've ever met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37755]]></link><description><![CDATA[He's just the most unbelievable person I've ever met.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55034]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58886]]></link><description><![CDATA[I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,  And to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14149]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool,  And to the false, error and truth alike,   Error is worse than ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44844]]></link><description><![CDATA[They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44844</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59109]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A more open Chinese market will help create the world's largest market. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36623]]></link><description><![CDATA[A more open Chinese market will help create the world's largest market.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36623</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2735]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old Grimes is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more;  He used to wear a long black coat   All button'd down before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His apparent care for his surroundings is ironic when you think he was responsible for one of the biggest ecocides ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29838]]></link><description><![CDATA[His apparent care for his surroundings is ironic when you think he was responsible for one of the biggest ecocides when he drained the southern marshes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29838</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We hope it shows ? yes these things are effective. We want concrete evidence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33322]]></link><description><![CDATA[We hope it shows ? yes these things are effective. We want concrete evidence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide, There was no cause for weeping, save when the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54443]]></link><description><![CDATA[And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide, There was no cause for weeping, save when the good man died.  [Fr., Ce n'est que lorsqu'il expira   Que le peuple, qui l'enterra pleura.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Distance lends enchantment to the view ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60839]]></link><description><![CDATA[Distance lends enchantment to the view]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Devotion is the real spiritual sweetness which takes away all bitterness from mortifications, and prevents consolations from disagreeing with the soul; it cures the poor of sadness, and the rich of presumption; it keeps the oppressed from feeling desolate, and the prosperous from insolence: it averts sadness from the lonely, and dissipation from social life; it is as warmth in winter and as refreshing dew in summer; it knows how to abound and how to suffer want, how to profit alike by honour and by contempt; it accepts gladness and sadness with an even mind, and fills men's hearts with a wondrous sweetness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57455]]></link><description><![CDATA[Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3894]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspired ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37555]]></link><description><![CDATA[[It's a model that Alfred Hitchcock drew on for many of his movies.] If there was a film that inspired me in writing 'Panic,' it was 'North by Northwest,' ... Those are my favorite Hitchcock films -- the ones where ordinary, everyday people are going about their lives, and they take this dramatic left turn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4658]]></link><description><![CDATA[Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20500]]></link><description><![CDATA[Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon."N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25383]]></link><description><![CDATA[Vigny, more secretAs if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon."N.B.: Vigny refers to Comte de Vigny, who locked himself in an ivory tower to work without the influences of man and desire. - Pensees d'Aout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25383</guid></item></channel></rss>