<?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[Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty & dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19990]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on the headstone might well be: "It seemed a good idea at the time.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All mankind love a lover. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63645]]></link><description><![CDATA[All mankind love a lover.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evidence shows this is not true. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32054]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evidence shows this is not true.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse are leading contributors to preventable death in the United States. By early adulthood, a large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smoking, obesity, and alcohol abuse are leading contributors to preventable death in the United States. By early adulthood, a large proportion of Americans smoke, are overweight, and drink alcohol to excess.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56846]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best way I know to win an argument is to start by being in the right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way thingsturn out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22688]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way thingsturn out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22688</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4806]]></link><description><![CDATA[A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56654]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56654</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great things are only possible with outrageous requests. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1288]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great things are only possible with outrageous requests.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And she hath smiles to earth unknown-- Smiles that with motion of their own  Do spread, and sink, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56694]]></link><description><![CDATA[And she hath smiles to earth unknown-- Smiles that with motion of their own  Do spread, and sink, and rise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58002]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47120]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you are to stand up for your Government you must be able to stand up to your Government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. [Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi  Nulla potest placare quies.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14007]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy. [Lat., Rabiem livoris acerbi  Nulla potest placare quies.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34873]]></link><description><![CDATA[The unique personality which is the real life in me, I can not gain unless I search for the real life, the spiritual quality, in others. I am myself spiritually dead unless I reach out to the fine quality dormant in others. For it is only with the god enthroned in the innermost shrine of the other, that the god hidden in me, will consent to appear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18274]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great men are rarely isolated mountain- peaks; they are the summits of ranges.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5591]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9730]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, butrather a person with a certain set ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21969]]></link><description><![CDATA[A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, butrather a person with a certain set of attitudes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--  Full of gasconade and bravado,   But a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61427]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--  Full of gasconade and bravado,   But a regular, rich Don Rataplane,    Santa Claus de la Muscavado,     Senor Grandissimo Bastinado!      His was the rental of half Havana       And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana,        Rich as he was, could hardly hold         A candle to light the mines of gold          Our Cuban owned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61427</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men at some times are masters of their fates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51280]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men at some times are masters of their fates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was time I got real aggressive inside. The coaches have been telling me when I get the ball inside, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40556]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was time I got real aggressive inside. The coaches have been telling me when I get the ball inside, to score it instead of passing it back outside.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53465]]></link><description><![CDATA[But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea,  The orange flower perfumes the bower, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh, The sun has left the lea,  The orange flower perfumes the bower,   The breeze is on the sea.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47789]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62115]]></link><description><![CDATA[The "value" or "worth" of a man is, as of all other things, his price; that is to say, so much as would be given for the use of his power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62115</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1260]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1260</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is nota thing to be waited ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21355]]></link><description><![CDATA[Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is nota thing to be waited for; it is a thing to be achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coming events cast their shadows before. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Coming events cast their shadows before.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all likelihood, the Library of Congress and Dr. Billington will be consulting closely with the U.S. Copyright Office housed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28961]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all likelihood, the Library of Congress and Dr. Billington will be consulting closely with the U.S. Copyright Office housed in the Library of Congress,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain  Of finite hearts that yearn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Only I discern Infinite passion, and the pain  Of finite hearts that yearn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain,  If, rising on its wrecks, at last   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18388]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nor deem the irrevocable Past, As wholly wasted, wholly vain,  If, rising on its wrecks, at last   To something nobler we attain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50996]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have no enemies it is a sign fortune has forgot you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A number of members of our local government, administration and local clergy will all go in and be guest readers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38686]]></link><description><![CDATA[A number of members of our local government, administration and local clergy will all go in and be guest readers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16327]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is probably the best year of my career, and we are having a good year. It's fun when you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40167]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is probably the best year of my career, and we are having a good year. It's fun when you have support from everyone, and everyone is on the same page. It's rare that it happens at the same time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20306]]></link><description><![CDATA[If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20306</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[You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61410]]></link><description><![CDATA[You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and powerful. Who can determine what would be his future conduct? Tell me, if you were to become a lion, what sort of a lion would you be?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61410</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have become the really hot projects. Hogs and sheep are not increasing as dramatically as the rabbits and goats, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34127]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have become the really hot projects. Hogs and sheep are not increasing as dramatically as the rabbits and goats, but they are going up too.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34127</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16439]]></link><description><![CDATA[The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How did Jesus show his authority? Not by making vast claims for himself, though such claims were implicit. His authority ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7111]]></link><description><![CDATA[How did Jesus show his authority? Not by making vast claims for himself, though such claims were implicit. His authority seemed to reside in what he was and what he did rather than in what he specifically claimed to be. Especially in Mark's Gospel there is an elusive quality about his authority, the mystery of the hidden Messiah. His authority was at the same time most deeply hidden and most clearly expressed by his servanthood... The more the Church in its life shows forth the character of the Servant, the more will its teaching bear the marks of the authority of the Servant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and soregretfully upon the closed door that we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21185]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and soregretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which hasopened for us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In climes beyond the solar road. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58290]]></link><description><![CDATA[In climes beyond the solar road.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58290</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64732]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman will doubt everything you say except it be compliments to herself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11511]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11511</guid></item></channel></rss>