<?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[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61814]]></link><description><![CDATA[His wit invites you by his looks to come, But when you knock, it never is at home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61814</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55775]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall From Dis's waggon! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phœbus in his strength,—a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one. -The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing makes me so happy as to observe nature and to paint what I see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15116]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the very books in which philosophers bid us scorn fame, they inscribe their names.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15116</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/201]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22904]]></link><description><![CDATA[The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The physician heals, Nature makes well. [Lat., Medicus curat, Natura sanat morbus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The physician heals, Nature makes well. [Lat., Medicus curat, Natura sanat morbus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12826]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Socialism is Bolshevism with a shave.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is obtained by war. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50696]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is obtained by war.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow's too lazy to form an opinion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15648]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we are honest, we freely admit that the Christian system involves difficulties; but so does every other system. No ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8363]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we are honest, we freely admit that the Christian system involves difficulties; but so does every other system. No thoughtful person gives up a position merely because he finds difficulties in it; he does not abandon it until he is able to find other and alternative systems with fewer difficulties... I learned from my professors of philosophy... that, while philosophy might not provide me with a watertight intellectual defense of the Christian faith, it would, if used aright, help me to reveal the weakness of its enemies. By careful analysis it is possible to see that there are glaring weaknesses and non-sequiturs in atheism, naturalism, positivism, scientism, and psychologism. The Christian must be a fighter, for he is always under attack. The Church will not be as strong as it ought to be until each local pastor uses his precious freedom from outside employment in order to become a scholarly participant in the intellectual struggle of our day and generation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With the proper revisions, this bill will support the important work that charitable organizations do in every community in our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33559]]></link><description><![CDATA[With the proper revisions, this bill will support the important work that charitable organizations do in every community in our country. It will also advance ethical conduct within the charitable community.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them on the dust,  Trod ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44764]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just, Stoop'd down serene and wrote them on the dust,  Trod under foot, the sport of every wind,   Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind,    There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie,     And grieved they could not 'scape the Almighty eye.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moderation, which consists in an indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60687]]></link><description><![CDATA[Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction. -E. F. Schumacher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60687</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43340]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1308]]></link><description><![CDATA[Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/306]]></link><description><![CDATA[By accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love he may rule the world forever]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/306</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/93]]></link><description><![CDATA[All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must posses if we are to face the future as finishers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/93</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character is what you are in the dark. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5669]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character is what you are in the dark.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Given these divergent signals from the Bank of Canada and the Fed, look for the Canadian dollar to strengthen in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Given these divergent signals from the Bank of Canada and the Fed, look for the Canadian dollar to strengthen in the near term, trading decisively through 90 U.S. cents.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's definitely nice. It's kind of like home-court advantage because I played here two years in high school and then ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29067]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's definitely nice. It's kind of like home-court advantage because I played here two years in high school and then a bunch of times in college. I'm real familiar with the gym and the baskets have nice shooting rims. I'm glad we're back in Denver.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2830]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36702]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a new experience for me. I've had a good preparation this season and I'm just trying to grow in my game. I just have to keep playing the same way I have been this week and give 100 percent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I first noticed the trees, swaying in the wind, and then I saw, or maybe I heard, one being twisted ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35639]]></link><description><![CDATA[I first noticed the trees, swaying in the wind, and then I saw, or maybe I heard, one being twisted from its roots. That's when I knew something bad was coming.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64208]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11858]]></link><description><![CDATA[Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2431]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the United States does best is to understand itself. What it does worst is understand others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2431</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35299]]></link><description><![CDATA[No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As many men, so many opinions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51734]]></link><description><![CDATA[As many men, so many opinions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few men know how to kiss well. Fortunately, I've always had time to teach them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few men know how to kiss well. Fortunately, I've always had time to teach them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variety is the soul of pleasure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variety is the soul of pleasure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37880]]></link><description><![CDATA[(The county) being 50 percent federally owned already, we're opposed. This is the third time it has come up now, and we opposed it every time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64842]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1751]]></link><description><![CDATA[True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I knew I could play, ... I knew I was going to be fine. I just kept my head up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I knew I could play, ... I knew I was going to be fine. I just kept my head up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not necessarily a slut, but I could be if I wanted to. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29204]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not necessarily a slut, but I could be if I wanted to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29204</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jealousy is nothing more than a fear of abandonment]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3192]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15729]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53412]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Conversation is a game of circles. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Conversation is a game of circles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy -- a Jill a rich widow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61561]]></link><description><![CDATA[All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy -- a Jill a rich widow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61561</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19890]]></link><description><![CDATA[A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress, but attend as a handmaid at the back of reason, to come to the front when bidden. For once it begins to take control of the mind, it calls just, what it does cruelly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10620]]></link><description><![CDATA[I prefer credulity to skepticism and cynicism for there is more promise in almost anything than in nothing at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10620</guid></item></channel></rss>