<?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[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[I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot. (on his decision not to vote) ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot. (on his decision not to vote)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing can work me damage except myself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22111]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing can work me damage except myself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58816]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat. -Nora Ephron. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14795]]></link><description><![CDATA[The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat. -Nora Ephron.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14795</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60966]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every community there is work to be done. In every nation there are wounds to heal. In every heart there is the power to do it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no sincerer love than the love of food. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27611]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no sincerer love than the love of food.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   "The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul" (Psa 19:7). Most ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7918]]></link><description><![CDATA[Continuing a short series on forgiveness:   "The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul" (Psa 19:7). Most laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7918</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24973]]></link><description><![CDATA[The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favorite things. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43450]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cute little babies that fall out of swings - These are a few of my favorite things.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42243]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Wolf in Sheep's ClothingOnce upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1553]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Wolf in Sheep's ClothingOnce upon a time a Wolf resolved to disguise his appearance in order to secure food more easily. Encased in the skin of a sheep, he pastured with the flock deceiving the shepherd by his costume. In the evening he was shut up by the shepherd in the fold; the gate was closed, and the entrance made thoroughly secure. But the shepherd, returning to the fold during the night to obtain meat for the next day, mistakenly caught up the Wolf instead of a sheep, and killed him instantly. Harm seek. Harm find.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19122]]></link><description><![CDATA[The way of sinners is made plain with stones, but at the end thereof is the pit of hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Finally, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6659]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Wilfrid, Abbot of Ripon, Bishop of York, Missionary, 709 Commemoration of Elizabeth Fry, Prison Reformer, 1845  Finally, what do we mean by the word "true"? How do we distinguish real Truth from human notions and ideas and opinions and doctrines? We are compelled to say that the word "true" means "grounded in reality, based on the real nature of things, on the basic facts which underlie the universe." Hence, if people say -- as many have said -- that the moral ideals set out in the gospels are high and noble ideals, and express admiration for the moral character of Jesus, and stop there, not daring to affirm more than that, the answer they are giving to the Question, "Is the Gospel true?", is No.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens. [Lat., Dignum laude virum ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20613]]></link><description><![CDATA[The muse does not allow the praise-de-serving here to die: she enthrones him in the heavens. [Lat., Dignum laude virum Musa vetat mori;  Coelo Musa beat.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65857]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65857</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it. [Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here honor binds me, and I wish to satisfy it. [Lat., Ici l'honneur m'oblige, et j'y veux satisfaire.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always thought I should be treated like a star. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26070]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always thought I should be treated like a star.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63229]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Please do not treat Indonesia as some satellite country that America can push around. Because if America is seen as ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Please do not treat Indonesia as some satellite country that America can push around. Because if America is seen as too arrogant and too hectoring and beats Indonesia on the head, then I think there's going to be this nationalistic backlash.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you sound like Vera Duckworth you will face prejudice in business. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40057]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you sound like Vera Duckworth you will face prejudice in business.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40057</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's no hate lost between us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18858]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's no hate lost between us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The workman still is greater than his work ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42387]]></link><description><![CDATA[The workman still is greater than his work]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blasphemy is a victimless crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47697]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blasphemy is a victimless crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sure would be nice to have some school officials here. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sure would be nice to have some school officials here.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You know, it happens. I'm playing like an All Star, and I know I'm one of the elite players, so ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35774]]></link><description><![CDATA[You know, it happens. I'm playing like an All Star, and I know I'm one of the elite players, so if I don't get picked, in my mind I'm still one of them. If I don't go, then I get to work out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We still have the raw material, there is no doubt about that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37913]]></link><description><![CDATA[We still have the raw material, there is no doubt about that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connect as it were by some ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3173]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the arts which belong to polished life have some common tie, and are connect as it were by some relationship. [Lat., Etenim omnes artes, quae ad humanitatem pertinent, habent quoddam commune vinculum, et quasi cognatione quadam inter se continentur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49588]]></link><description><![CDATA[Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8872]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man likes his wife to be just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness, and just stupid enough to admire it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8872</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger is insolent, and will be fed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64185]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger is insolent, and will be fed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27036]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't want to live-I want to love first, and live incidentally. -Zelda Fitzgerald. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14797]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't want to live-I want to love first, and live incidentally. -Zelda Fitzgerald.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39004]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2670]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man is about as big as the things that make him angry ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2521]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man is about as big as the things that make him angry]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She rears her young on yonder tree; She leaves her faithful mate to mind 'em;  Like us, for fish ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18899]]></link><description><![CDATA[She rears her young on yonder tree; She leaves her faithful mate to mind 'em;  Like us, for fish she sails to sea,   And, plunging, shows us where to find 'em.    Yo, ho, my hearts! let's seek the deep,     Ply every oar, and cheerly with her,      While slow the bending net we sweep,       God bless the fish-hawk and the fisher.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43977]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of guilt. [Lat., Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18473]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is more wretched that the mind of a man conscious of guilt. [Lat., Nihil est miserius quam animus hominis conscius.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47174]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you have ever seen a four-year-old trying to lord it over a two-year-old, then you know what the basic problem of human nature is -- and why government keeps growing larger and ever more intrusive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42955]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yes! ready money is Aladdin's lamp.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3438]]></link><description><![CDATA[Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3438</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Living with a saint is more grueling than being one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1186</guid></item></channel></rss>