<?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[People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbours. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44378]]></link><description><![CDATA[People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46060]]></link><description><![CDATA[Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27975]]></link><description><![CDATA[They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27141]]></link><description><![CDATA[As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You never become a howling success by just howling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21813]]></link><description><![CDATA[You never become a howling success by just howling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29111]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our federal Union: it must be preserved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our federal Union: it must be preserved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The importance of this big defeat, dramatic defeat is not only that they have lost areas, but they have lost ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The importance of this big defeat, dramatic defeat is not only that they have lost areas, but they have lost their main fighting force,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is made more sacred by adversity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/728]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is made more sacred by adversity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/728</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My classes are really challenging. I didn't think senior year would be so tough. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40311]]></link><description><![CDATA[My classes are really challenging. I didn't think senior year would be so tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44011]]></link><description><![CDATA[Britain's best bulwarks are her wooden walls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44011</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52532]]></link><description><![CDATA[Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;  These first induce ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52617]]></link><description><![CDATA[From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains;  These first induce him the vile trash to try,   Then lend his name, that other men may buy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44950]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even opinion is of force enough to make itself to be espoused at the expense of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They ordered him to drop the knife, and he just kept backpedaling. Then he lunged at an officer, who had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32913]]></link><description><![CDATA[They ordered him to drop the knife, and he just kept backpedaling. Then he lunged at an officer, who had to step back to avoid being stabbed in the chest.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A bachelor has to have inspiration for making love to a woman, a married man needs only an excuse ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3648]]></link><description><![CDATA[A bachelor has to have inspiration for making love to a woman, a married man needs only an excuse]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I dress up in my costume, and I do the laundry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29203]]></link><description><![CDATA[I dress up in my costume, and I do the laundry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29203</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kelly has everything we look for in a defensive lineman. He has great natural use of hands, he has very ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35374]]></link><description><![CDATA[Kelly has everything we look for in a defensive lineman. He has great natural use of hands, he has very good initial quickness and very good feet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54183]]></link><description><![CDATA[I consider theology to be the rhetoric of morals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12399]]></link><description><![CDATA[For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12399</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.rn ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63975]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.rn]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46695]]></link><description><![CDATA[In our amusements a certain limit is to be placed that we may not devote ourselves to a life of pleasure and thence fall into immorality. [Lat., Ludendi etiam est quidam modus retinendus, ut ne nimis omnia profundamus, elatique voluptate in aliquam turpitudinem delabamur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64421]]></link><description><![CDATA[The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The success in this referendum, it isn't how many people are going to say 'yes' and how many people are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34808]]></link><description><![CDATA[The success in this referendum, it isn't how many people are going to say 'yes' and how many people are going to say 'no,' ... The success is that all Iraqis ... found out that the polling station is the way to deal with the political problems in Iraq, to deal with the violence in Iraq.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There was a depth of ... confusion that we weren't expecting. I think people take their freedoms for granted. Bottom ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32806]]></link><description><![CDATA[There was a depth of ... confusion that we weren't expecting. I think people take their freedoms for granted. Bottom line.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14184]]></link><description><![CDATA[An avowal of poverty is no disgrace to any man; to make no effort to escape it is indeed disgraceful]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14184</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24160]]></link><description><![CDATA[For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man is the architect of his own fortune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16605]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man is the architect of his own fortune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13559]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I saw you, I was afraid to meet you... When I met you, I was afraid to kiss you... ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23855]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I saw you, I was afraid to meet you... When I met you, I was afraid to kiss you... When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you... Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/521]]></link><description><![CDATA[I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45704]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All thing pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for. He who has God Finds he lacks nothing:God alone suffices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25759]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, -I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! - and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25759</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23241]]></link><description><![CDATA[Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... The most important thing right now is the crew's safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28669]]></link><description><![CDATA[... The most important thing right now is the crew's safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5560]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -Marilyn Ferguson.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everyone has his besetting sin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everyone has his besetting sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For a long time, parents did not have more than a modest amount of information about what really school is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37535]]></link><description><![CDATA[For a long time, parents did not have more than a modest amount of information about what really school is about. In an era where choice is possible, you need good information.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Union gives strength. (The Bundle of Sticks 550 BC). ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Union gives strength. (The Bundle of Sticks 550 BC).]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56793]]></link><description><![CDATA[...man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meaning can be found, he will provide it out of his own imagination.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24082]]></link><description><![CDATA[We defend ourself with descriptions and tame the world by generalizing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was now a coward on instinct. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55863]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was now a coward on instinct. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11882]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  I hear no one boast, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6413]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Henry Martyn, Translator of the Scriptures, Missionary in India & Persia, 1812  I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. And tell me then, what profiteth this? The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It really is about time that in such an important city, the capital, that we have something that can represent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36539]]></link><description><![CDATA[It really is about time that in such an important city, the capital, that we have something that can represent London.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36539</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45181]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45181</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41554</guid></item></channel></rss>