<?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[The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27642]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are bent rods ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/593]]></link><description><![CDATA[To my purist trout fishing friends, bass are lowly green fish and brown fish. To me, bass are bent rods and aching arms. To my ex-wife, bass are the bewilderment of addiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27457]]></link><description><![CDATA[The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27457</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44288]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's very tragic. You never think it could happen to you. It makes you more thankful for what you have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31624]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's very tragic. You never think it could happen to you. It makes you more thankful for what you have and your family.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood. [Fr., Toutes les passions ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45606]]></link><description><![CDATA[All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood. [Fr., Toutes les passions ne sout autre chose que les divers degres de la chaleur et de la froideur du sang.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Although the last, not least. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51556]]></link><description><![CDATA[Although the last, not least.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51556</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9588]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27050]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27050</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47142]]></link><description><![CDATA[The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Almost everything you do will seem insignificant, but it is important that you do it]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes aretaken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22162]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes aretaken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We got some shots on goal, not a lot of quality chances. It's one of those games where the team ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32835]]></link><description><![CDATA[We got some shots on goal, not a lot of quality chances. It's one of those games where the team hangs in there. Their goaltender gives them a chance to win the game.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32835</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23234]]></link><description><![CDATA[Jesting, often, only proves a want of intellect. [Fr., La moquerie est souvent une indigence d'esprit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2263]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48105]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21631]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21631</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3463]]></link><description><![CDATA[You cannot be healthy; you cannot be happy; you cannot be prosperous; if you have a bad disposition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3463</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59237]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/966]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17978]]></link><description><![CDATA[It [Calvinism] established a religion without a prelate, a government without a king.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is not yet over and hundreds of thousands of people still urgently need to be reached. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29100]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is not yet over and hundreds of thousands of people still urgently need to be reached.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29100</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A place for everything, everything in its place. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45273]]></link><description><![CDATA[A place for everything, everything in its place.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the U.S. does need to be more even-handed in its dealings ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33554]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't need to hug Indonesians to death. But the U.S. does need to be more even-handed in its dealings in the Middle East, [and] more sophisticated in its dealings with the Muslim world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's for a great cause, making fools of ourselves. Anything for the kids. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37152]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's for a great cause, making fools of ourselves. Anything for the kids.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37152</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him  In my heart's core, ay, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45614]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him  In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart,   As I do thee.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach. [Sp., Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13182]]></link><description><![CDATA[The stomach carries the heart, and not the heart the stomach. [Sp., Tripas llevan corazon, que no corazon tripas.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57389]]></link><description><![CDATA[If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56879]]></link><description><![CDATA[To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place  In my heart's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16171]]></link><description><![CDATA[By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place  In my heart's love hath no man than yourself.   Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16171</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I will be hanged if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue,  Some cogging, cozening slave, to get ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56554]]></link><description><![CDATA[I will be hanged if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue,  Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,   Have not devised this slander.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13446]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nine tenths of education is encouragement.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13446</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47729]]></link><description><![CDATA[How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20459]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20459</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The last, lonely trailing indicator of the business cycle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34416]]></link><description><![CDATA[The last, lonely trailing indicator of the business cycle.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34416</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I deserve respect for the things I did not do. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47017]]></link><description><![CDATA[I deserve respect for the things I did not do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18173]]></link><description><![CDATA[Two kinds of gratitude: The sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bond market is very excited about this inflation data. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42205]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bond market is very excited about this inflation data.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60564]]></link><description><![CDATA[The broad mass of a nation . . . will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   We took tea, by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Lucy, Martyr at Syracuse, 304 Commemoration of Samuel Johnson, Writer, Moralist, 1784   We took tea, by Boswell's desire; and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again? I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4970]]></link><description><![CDATA[The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64962]]></link><description><![CDATA[Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God sends. That ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7464]]></link><description><![CDATA[As to deliberate mortifications -- I take it you do feel satisfied that you accept fully those God sends. That being so, you might perhaps do one or two little things, as acts of love, and also as discipline. I suggest by preference the mortification of the tongue -- as being very tiresome and quite harmless to the health. Careful guard on all amusing criticisms of others, on all complaints however casual or trivial.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11072]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't play for safety--it's the most dangerous thing in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We came up with a pretty unique scheme that we think the tourism people were impressed with. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33936]]></link><description><![CDATA[We came up with a pretty unique scheme that we think the tourism people were impressed with.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? [Lat., Quis scit, an adjiciant hodiernae crastina summae ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60018]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? [Lat., Quis scit, an adjiciant hodiernae crastina summae  Tempora di superi?]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60018</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66160]]></link><description><![CDATA[The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My life goal was for me to reach out to the needy, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37956]]></link><description><![CDATA[My life goal was for me to reach out to the needy,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine,  Whose breast of waters broadly swells  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54189]]></link><description><![CDATA[The castled crag of Drachenfels, Frowns o'er the wide and winding Rhine,  Whose breast of waters broadly swells   Between the banks which bear the vine,    And hills all rich with blossom'd trees,     And fields which promise corn and wine,      And scatter'd cities crowning these,       Whose far white walls along them shine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54189</guid></item></channel></rss>