<?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[Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12137]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man for himself, his own ends, the devil for all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.' ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10964]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic might suggest as the motto of modern life this simple legend - 'Just as good as the real.']]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10964</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47353]]></link><description><![CDATA[He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17563]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17563</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render  The deeds of mercy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27351]]></link><description><![CDATA[We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render  The deeds of mercy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24670]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . . in important things, diversity. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12595]]></link><description><![CDATA[I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60454]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Manners with Fortunes, Humours turn with Climes, Tenets with Books, and Principles with Times.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15117]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous youth,  That blushed at its own praise. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48932]]></link><description><![CDATA[He would stroke The head of modest and ingenuous youth,  That blushed at its own praise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most, That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most, That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly are lost?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27951]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55232]]></link><description><![CDATA[One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. -Diogenes Laertius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27367]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44194]]></link><description><![CDATA[Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10221]]></link><description><![CDATA[So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10939]]></link><description><![CDATA[A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45395]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59666]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16458]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mentor: Someone whose hindsight can become your foresight]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52901]]></link><description><![CDATA[When white and black and brown and every other color decide they're going to live together as Christians, then and only then are we going to see an end to these troubles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sex is like snow, you never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55252]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sex is like snow, you never know how many inches you're going to get or how long it will last]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55252</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman either loves or hates. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51580]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman either loves or hates.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65191]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For I no sooner in my heart divin'd My heart, which by a secret harmony  Still moves with thine, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58527]]></link><description><![CDATA[For I no sooner in my heart divin'd My heart, which by a secret harmony  Still moves with thine, joined in connection sweet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5946]]></link><description><![CDATA[Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1363]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1363</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10085]]></link><description><![CDATA[With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come  Whate'er the subject be that starts.   But if I get among the glum    I hold my tongue to tell the truth     And keep my breath to cool my broth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're going to miss him a lot. Other guys have to step up and do a great job. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34529]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're going to miss him a lot. Other guys have to step up and do a great job.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1405]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15335]]></link><description><![CDATA[On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Companies are beginning to realize there's money to be made in marketing to our age group. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Companies are beginning to realize there's money to be made in marketing to our age group.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66772]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good education, housing and jobs are imperatives for the Negroes, and I shall support them in their fight to win these objectives, but I shall tell the Negroes that while these are necessary, they cannot solve the main Negro problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22513]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a great deal easier to do that which God gives us to do, no matter how hard it is, than to face the responsibilities of not doing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A young man married is a man that 's marr'd. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55724]]></link><description><![CDATA[A young man married is a man that 's marr'd. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For African American ideals, ""The Promised Land"" is not a land to be ""reclaimed"" after hundreds, or even thousands, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39187]]></link><description><![CDATA[For African American ideals, ""The Promised Land"" is not a land to be ""reclaimed"" after hundreds, or even thousands, of years, citing God as the real estate agent. The Promised Land doesn't echo the injustices of the past by, in part, replicating them upon others. The Promised Land is the creation of a just society with an appreciation for the diversity of all humanity and equality for all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the toothof the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47956]]></link><description><![CDATA[God deliver me from the venom of the cobra, the toothof the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7297]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess of Wimborne, c.725 Commemoration of John Bunyan, Spiritual Writer, 1688   Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7297</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?  To ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1724]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?  To view each love one blotted from life's page,   And be alone on earth as I am now.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64606]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52507]]></link><description><![CDATA[The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54632]]></link><description><![CDATA[I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61415]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61415</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48790]]></link><description><![CDATA[And whispering, "I will ne'er consent," consented.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66388]]></link><description><![CDATA[I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29137]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think we've gotten way too lackadaisical,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty. [Fr., Il n'y a que le premier obstacle qui ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3947]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty. [Fr., Il n'y a que le premier obstacle qui coute a vaincre la pudeur.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3947</guid></item></channel></rss>