<?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[The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52126]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts with the prominent display required for sexual allurement. This end is far more effectively attained, with greater advantage and less disadvantage, by concentrating the chief ensigns of sexual attractiveness on the upper and more conspicuous parts of the body. This method is well-nigh universal among animals as well as in man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52126</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46620]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46620</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47282]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2723]]></link><description><![CDATA[But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress  Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less,   And jewelry worth tem times more, I should guess,    That he had not a thing in the wide world to wear!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Very slight violence will break that which has once been cracked.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8834]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8834</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for 's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56080]]></link><description><![CDATA[His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for 's power to thunder. -Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12609]]></link><description><![CDATA[My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in milk. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in milk.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then horn for horn they stretch and strive; Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18771]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then horn for horn they stretch and strive; Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is a Jack of all trades. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50446]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is a Jack of all trades.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46487]]></link><description><![CDATA[O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men scattered about into the social enjoyment of life. [Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix, expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14167]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43183]]></link><description><![CDATA[God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap - ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60856]]></link><description><![CDATA[The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap - and they know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10905]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10905</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23666]]></link><description><![CDATA[When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love one's neighbor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4947]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is easier to love humanity than to love one's neighbor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We would have liked that the wish for appeasement had prevailed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34957]]></link><description><![CDATA[We would have liked that the wish for appeasement had prevailed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We were expecting to end up there anyway because the other side would have appealed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41996]]></link><description><![CDATA[We were expecting to end up there anyway because the other side would have appealed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   When once a man begins to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957   When once a man begins to build a system, the very gifts and qualities which might serve in the investigation of truth, become the greatest hindrances to it. He must make the different parts of the scheme fit into each other; his dexterity is shown, not in detecting facts, but in cutting them square... I hope you will not forget that the Bible is the history of God's acts to men, not of men's thoughts about God. It begins from Him. He is acting and speaking in it throughout.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky;  Not half ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12808]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky;  Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves,   When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't see how the company can have that kind of visibility, especially with a management team that had to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28341]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't see how the company can have that kind of visibility, especially with a management team that had to revise earnings three times within one quarter last year. They don't have credibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28341</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12985]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fill up the goblet and reach to me some! Drinking makes wise, but dry fasting makes glum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!--  The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62304]]></link><description><![CDATA[The heart ran o'er With silent worship of the great of old!--  The dead, but sceptred sovereigns, who still rule   Our spirits from their urns.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62304</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine But only hope. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sinews of affairs are cut. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42967]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sinews of affairs are cut.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53430]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But in this point All his tricks founder and he brings his physic  After his patient's death: the king ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26719]]></link><description><![CDATA[But in this point All his tricks founder and he brings his physic  After his patient's death: the king already   Hath married the fair lady.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14388]]></link><description><![CDATA[This noble ensample to his sheepe he gaf,-- That firste he wroughte and after he taughte.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Relief workers in New Orleans, the money they're paid is burning a hole in their pocket and they're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36025]]></link><description><![CDATA[Relief workers in New Orleans, the money they're paid is burning a hole in their pocket and they're going to spend it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better good afarre off, then evill at hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better good afarre off, then evill at hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Terrible is the temptation to be good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58893]]></link><description><![CDATA[Terrible is the temptation to be good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58893</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61827]]></link><description><![CDATA[This man [Chesterfield] I thought had been a lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among lords.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone;  But those which soonest take their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23433]]></link><description><![CDATA[How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone;  But those which soonest take their flight   Are the most exquisite and strong;    Like angel's visits short and bright,     Mortality's too weak to bear them long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10734]]></link><description><![CDATA[But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18350]]></link><description><![CDATA[While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/719]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes adversity impels a person to greater heights, and sometimes it provides the opportunity for that person to be a blessing in the lives of others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26339]]></link><description><![CDATA[An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men say, "How are we to act, what are we to teach our children, now that we are no longer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men say, "How are we to act, what are we to teach our children, now that we are no longer Christians?" You see, gentlemen, how I would answer that question. You are deceived in thinking that the morality of your father was based on Christianity. On the contrary, Christianity presupposed it. That morality stands exactly where it did; its basis has not been withdrawn, for, in a sense, it never had a basis. The ultimate ethical injunctions have always been premises, never conclusions. Kant was perfectly right on that point at least, the imperative is categorical. Unless the ethical is assumed from the outset, no argument will bring you to it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  Peace comes when there is no cloud between ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672  Peace comes when there is no cloud between us and God. Peace is the consequence of forgiveness, God's removal of that which obscures His face and so breaks union with Him. The happy sequence culminating in fellowship with God is penitence, pardon, and peace -- the first we offer, the second we accept, and the third we inherit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a stone there, That whoever kisses,  Oh! he never misses   To grow eloquent.   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23052]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a stone there, That whoever kisses,  Oh! he never misses   To grow eloquent.    'Tis he may clamber     To a lady's chamber      Or become a member       Of Parliament.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23052</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47105]]></link><description><![CDATA[...no civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No one can keep a mask on long. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51173]]></link><description><![CDATA[No one can keep a mask on long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35821]]></link><description><![CDATA[I should be making plans more for the next world than for this one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26071]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7690]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7690</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast  And fills the white and rustling sails, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43991]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wet sheet and a flowing sea, A wind that follows fast  And fills the white and rustling sails,   And bends the gallant mast!    And bends the gallant mast, my boys,     While, like the eagle free,      Away the good ship flies, and leaves       Old England in the lee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43991</guid></item></channel></rss>