<?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[He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43020]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43020</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Paul Richter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10413]]></link><description><![CDATA[A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. -Paul Richter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men who care passionately for women attach themselves at least as much to the temple and to the accessories of the cult as to their goddess herself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51478]]></link><description><![CDATA[Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47505]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47505</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd  And watched with zealous ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here's to the men who lose! What though their work be e'er so nobly plann'd  And watched with zealous care;   No glorious halo crowns their efforts grand--    Contempt is Failure's share!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Here [in Matthew 23] is an interpretation of Israel's history according to which God's people have always been disobedient and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6961]]></link><description><![CDATA[Here [in Matthew 23] is an interpretation of Israel's history according to which God's people have always been disobedient and rebellious: their alienation from God, it is clearly implied, is to reach its climax in the murder of the Messiah himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great artist is always before his time or behind it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3229]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great artist is always before his time or behind it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43107]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is something more horrible than hoodlums, churls and vipers, and that is knaves with moral justification for their cause.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hunger is sharper than the sword. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20146]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hunger is sharper than the sword.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20146</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31023]]></link><description><![CDATA[Videogames are a little more work and they're a little more stilted.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14356]]></link><description><![CDATA[Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse;  So men were developed from monkeys of course,   Which nobody can deny.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41030]]></link><description><![CDATA[Facts are stupid until brought into connection with some general law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41030</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things well fitted abide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things well fitted abide.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60870]]></link><description><![CDATA[You see things and you say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?".]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't get mad, get even. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54114]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't get mad, get even.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's no fun getting beat up in the press. That's for sure. I grew up more in that one year ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34630]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's no fun getting beat up in the press. That's for sure. I grew up more in that one year than I had in the previous 18.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27966]]></link><description><![CDATA[For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you are through changing, you are through. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5565]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you are through changing, you are through.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45941]]></link><description><![CDATA[All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Strive to make proposed solutions as self-executing as possible. As the degree of discretion increases, so too does bureaucracy, delay, and expense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66809]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59165]]></link><description><![CDATA[Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a woman in China having a baby every 6 minutes.They're trying to find her to stop her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20096]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a woman in China having a baby every 6 minutes.They're trying to find her to stop her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Chance is the fool's name for Fate ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35161]]></link><description><![CDATA[Chance is the fool's name for Fate]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35161</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reason is our soul's left hand, Faith her right.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62092]]></link><description><![CDATA[To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44497]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44497</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54649]]></link><description><![CDATA[They say there's a heaven for those who will wait. Some say it's better, but I say it ain't. I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. Sinners are much more fun...]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48254]]></link><description><![CDATA[The jour printer with gray head and gaunt jaws works at his case, He turns his quid of tobacco, while his eyes blur with the manuscript.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64923]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64923</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56358]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. -Henry David Thoreau.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56358</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood,  The holy name ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18326]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood,  The holy name of Grief--holy herein,   That, by the grief of One, came all our good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16805]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9293]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the weak man who urges compromise--never the strong man.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56029]]></link><description><![CDATA[No man's pie is freed From his ambitious finger. -King Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10108]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7395]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a state of perfect peace with God which can be attained under imperfect obedience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you can't believe your eyes, you can always trust your heart. Love makes anything possible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62876]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you can't believe your eyes, you can always trust your heart. Love makes anything possible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62553]]></link><description><![CDATA[Young men soon give and soon forget affronts; Old age is slow in both.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After a trip to Mexico [in 1984]... I fell ill... The illness was protracted... I suffered a mild depression... When ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8413]]></link><description><![CDATA[After a trip to Mexico [in 1984]... I fell ill... The illness was protracted... I suffered a mild depression... When [an episcopal priest] prayed for my recovery, I choked up and wept. The only prayer I knew word for word was the Pater Noster. On that day and in the days after it, I found myself repeating the Lord's Prayer, again and again, and meaning every word of it. Quite suddenly, when I was awake one night, a light dawned on me, and I realized what had happened... After many years of affirming God's existence and trying to give adequate reasons for that affirmation, I found myself believing in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4436]]></link><description><![CDATA[Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without his rod revers'd, And backward mutters of dissevering power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27693]]></link><description><![CDATA[Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10120]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never, "for the sake of peace and quiet," deny your own experience or convictions]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10120</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53702]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Integrity is the essence of everything successful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22292]]></link><description><![CDATA[Integrity is the essence of everything successful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22292</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God made the country, and man made the town. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8764]]></link><description><![CDATA[God made the country, and man made the town.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8764</guid></item></channel></rss>