<?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[Christ is our Passover! And we will keep the feast  With the new leaven,   The bread of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13152]]></link><description><![CDATA[Christ is our Passover! And we will keep the feast  With the new leaven,   The bread of heaven:    All welcome, even the least!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce:  It's fitter being sane than mad.  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9144]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce:  It's fitter being sane than mad.   My own hope is, a sun will pierce    The thickest cloud earth ever stretched;     That, after Last, returns the First,      Though a wide compass round be fetched;       That what began best, can't end worst,        Nor what God blessed once, prove accurst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A human being is a deciding being. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22675]]></link><description><![CDATA[A human being is a deciding being.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I always find that democracy is very unpredictable. What is clear is that members vote very much not on trends ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35221]]></link><description><![CDATA[I always find that democracy is very unpredictable. What is clear is that members vote very much not on trends but on whatever they feel is worthy, without any external influence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2009]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The morning that my baby came They found a baby swallow dead,  And saw a something hard to name ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3635]]></link><description><![CDATA[The morning that my baby came They found a baby swallow dead,  And saw a something hard to name   Fly mothlike over baby's bed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1908]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what is I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are quite confident the system has sufficient checks and balances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40888]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are quite confident the system has sufficient checks and balances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43715]]></link><description><![CDATA[States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56369]]></link><description><![CDATA[It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28578]]></link><description><![CDATA[Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57762]]></link><description><![CDATA[I skate to where the puck is going to be, not to where it has been.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45387]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45387</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The White Plume of Navarre. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46933]]></link><description><![CDATA[The White Plume of Navarre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4272]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55935]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the thickets and the meadows Piped the bluebird, the Owaissa.  On the summit of the lodges   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4366]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the thickets and the meadows Piped the bluebird, the Owaissa.  On the summit of the lodges   Sang the robin, the Opechee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51951]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[College is the best time of your life ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8950]]></link><description><![CDATA[College is the best time of your life]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8950</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19797]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19797</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3571]]></link><description><![CDATA[Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3571</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm very anxious not to fall into archaism or "literary" diction. I want my vocabulary to have a very large range, but the words must be alive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15227]]></link><description><![CDATA[I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25239]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2632]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22215]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55409]]></link><description><![CDATA[One Pinch, a hungry lean-faced villain, A mere anatomy. -The Comedy of Errors. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We haven't been able to put together all facets (hitting, pitching and defense) of the game yet. One game we'll ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42098]]></link><description><![CDATA[We haven't been able to put together all facets (hitting, pitching and defense) of the game yet. One game we'll play poor defensively and hit well. The next game maybe we won't be hitting but our pitchers will pick us up. It will come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is the quality of your intent?Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53980]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is the quality of your intent?Certain people have a way of saying things that shake us at the core. Even when the words do not seem harsh or offensive, the impact is shattering. What we could be experiencing is the intent behind the words. When we intend to do good, we do. When we intend to do harm, it happens. What each of us must come to realize is that our intent always comes through. We cannot sugarcoat the feelings in our heart of hearts. The emotion is the energy that motivates. We cannot ignore what we really want to create. We should be honest and do it the way we feel it. What we owe to ourselves and everyone around is to examine the reasons of our true intent.My intent will be evident in the results.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines don't have that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some spend their entire lives wondering if they have made a difference in this world. The Marines don't have that problem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Iron hand in a velvet glove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47940]]></link><description><![CDATA[Iron hand in a velvet glove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24884]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Life! thou art a galling load, Along a rough, a weary road, To wretches such as I.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3879]]></link><description><![CDATA[What the British must never believe about themselves is that they are good at games, strong in adversity, but lousy in bed. It is a myth invented by jealous foreigners.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Admiration is the daughter of ignorance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/600]]></link><description><![CDATA[Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46772]]></link><description><![CDATA[A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46772</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16454]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Kid and the WolfA kid standing on the roof of a house, out of harm's way, saw a Wolf ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1580]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Kid and the WolfA kid standing on the roof of a house, out of harm's way, saw a Wolf passing by and immediately began to taunt and revile him. The Wolf, looking up, said, Sirrah! I hear thee: yet it is not thou who mockest me, but the roof on which thou art standing. Time and place often give the advantage to the weak over the strong.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53604]]></link><description><![CDATA[No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Art is running away without ever leaving home. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3210]]></link><description><![CDATA[Art is running away without ever leaving home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17457]]></link><description><![CDATA[Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19639]]></link><description><![CDATA[Construed as turf, home just seems a provisional claim, a designation you make upon a place, not one it makes on you. A certain set of buildings, a glimpsed, smudged window-view across a schoolyard, a musty aroma sniffed behind a garage when you were a child, all of which come crowding in upon your latter-day senses -- those are pungent things and vivid, even consoling. But to me they are also inert and nostalgic and unlikely to connect you to the real, to that essence art can sometimes achieve, which is permanence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19639</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In this respect, I have called before these attacks for halting these operations so that people will not believe the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36214]]></link><description><![CDATA[In this respect, I have called before these attacks for halting these operations so that people will not believe the attacks are aimed at preventing them from participating in the referendum.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54300]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blues, spirituals, and folk tales recounted from mouth to mouth . . . all these formed the channels through which the racial wisdom flowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65749]]></link><description><![CDATA[Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65749</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a hard loss, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30617]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a hard loss,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57078]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every politician, clergyman, educator, or physician, in short, anyone dealing with human individuals, is bound to make grave mistakes if he ignores these two great truths of population zoology: (1) no two individuals are alike, and (2) both environment and genetic endowment make a contribution to nearly every trait.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, nature was his book. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58016]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strange to the world, he wore a bashful look, The fields his study, nature was his book.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58016</guid></item></channel></rss>