<?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[One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60405]]></link><description><![CDATA[One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25366]]></link><description><![CDATA[Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1166]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The power of God is the worship He inspires. That religion is strong which in its ritual and its modes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7025]]></link><description><![CDATA[The power of God is the worship He inspires. That religion is strong which in its ritual and its modes of thought evokes an apprehension of the commanding vision. The worship of God is not a rule of safety: it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable. The death of religion comes with the repression of the high hope of adventure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7025</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brazen helm of daffodillies, With a glitter toward the light.  Purple violets for the mouth,   Breathing perfumes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Brazen helm of daffodillies, With a glitter toward the light.  Purple violets for the mouth,   Breathing perfumes west and south;    And a sword of flashing lilies,     Holden ready for the fight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What you get free costs too much. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63455]]></link><description><![CDATA[What you get free costs too much.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/525]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15062]]></link><description><![CDATA[We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   The concept of Israel as the chosen people does not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Martin, Monk, Bishop of Tours, 397   The concept of Israel as the chosen people does not imply a certain divine favoritism, as some seem to think, but an opportunity of grace, a calling that involved the assumption of the servant role among the nations. It was the fact that they had interpreted themselves as special objects of God's favor, and rejected the servant role, that led to their own rejection.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14775]]></link><description><![CDATA[An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14835]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's quick as a cat. She came out and was aggressive and that's exactly what we needed. If she's not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41727]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's quick as a cat. She came out and was aggressive and that's exactly what we needed. If she's not out there at the 18 and at the girl's feet, then they score easily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597   The Christian must be consumed with the infinite beauty of holiness and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Martyrs of Japan, 1597   The Christian must be consumed with the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64136]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be incredibly arrogant.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Texas 'redistricting' hasouted Tom Delay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/251]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Texas 'redistricting' hasouted Tom Delay.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5170]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5170</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26492]]></link><description><![CDATA[Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The hair is the richest ornament of women. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18596]]></link><description><![CDATA[The hair is the richest ornament of women.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64767]]></link><description><![CDATA[If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6969]]></link><description><![CDATA[One encounter with Jesus Christ is enough to change you, instantly, forever.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10220]]></link><description><![CDATA['My country, right or wrong' is a thing no patriot would ever think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,  Is always happy, reign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16614]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk,  Is always happy, reign whoever may,   And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55611]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word. -The Merchant of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55611</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   O Holy Spirit, Who breathe where you will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6761]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Richard Rolle of Hampole, Writer, Hermit, Mystic, 1349   O Holy Spirit, Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself. Fortify the nature you have created, with gifts so flowing with honey that, from intense joy in your sweetness, it may despise and reject all which is in this world, that it may accept spiritual gifts, and through melodious jubilation, it may entirely melt in holy love, reaching out for uncircumscribed Light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van,  The fittest place where man can die  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11177]]></link><description><![CDATA[But whether on the scaffold high, Or in the battle's van,  The fittest place where man can die   Is where he dies for man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64273]]></link><description><![CDATA[I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19002]]></link><description><![CDATA[Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is only one evil: ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63131]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is only one evil: ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the combat ceased, for want of combatants. [Fr., Et le combat cessa, faute de combattants.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9960]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the combat ceased, for want of combatants. [Fr., Et le combat cessa, faute de combattants.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9960</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nobody could believe that somebody would steal pocket change and break into the library to do so. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35648]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nobody could believe that somebody would steal pocket change and break into the library to do so.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11536]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is vain to find fault with those arts of deceiving, wherein men find pleasure to be deceived.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is not any different medicine. It?s simply a different tool to deliver that medicine. And you shouldn?t put any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40481]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is not any different medicine. It?s simply a different tool to deliver that medicine. And you shouldn?t put any artificial requirements on it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. [Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26125]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe. [Show me a liar, and I'll show thee a thief.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've lost a lot of close games that we could have won, but they slipped away. We play the same ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28581]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've lost a lot of close games that we could have won, but they slipped away. We play the same way every game. But this game, we had to keep playing hard because Virginia wasn't going to go away. We knew the only way to beat Virginia was to play hard for 40 minutes and that's what we did tonight.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28581</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I happen to think it's safer having the people out of the token booths than in the token booths. When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29232]]></link><description><![CDATA[I happen to think it's safer having the people out of the token booths than in the token booths. When they're circulating, they're much more, you know, 'eyes and ears' than when they're stuck in a booth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's elimination time and we were kind of tight. When the home run came it gave us a relief. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40571]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's elimination time and we were kind of tight. When the home run came it gave us a relief. That team is tough.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wish they would only take me as I am. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/288]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wish they would only take me as I am.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state;  Then the great man helped the poor, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60140]]></link><description><![CDATA[Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state;  Then the great man helped the poor,   And the poor man loved the great:    Then lands were fairly portioned;     Then spoils were fairly sold:      The Romans were like brothers       In the brave days of old.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17603]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17603</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We finally have established that there will be no runaway use of contract employees, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29617]]></link><description><![CDATA[We finally have established that there will be no runaway use of contract employees,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/67]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/67</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "successmechanism" within you takes over and does the job ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22444]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you see a thing clearly in your mind, your creative "successmechanism" within you takes over and does the job much better thanyou could do it by conscious effort or "willpower.".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22444</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65302]]></link><description><![CDATA[Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51197]]></link><description><![CDATA[The vices of idleness are only to be shaken off by active employment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51197</guid></item></channel></rss>