<?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[Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4279]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44991]]></link><description><![CDATA[New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Get your feet on the ground. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48558]]></link><description><![CDATA[Get your feet on the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The beauty of our project is that we are taking something historical, something that has an emotional attachment to the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29270]]></link><description><![CDATA[The beauty of our project is that we are taking something historical, something that has an emotional attachment to the community, and giving it rebirth. The sense of neighborhood and community at the Bethlehem Steel site is a good thing. We intend to be good neighbors, and we intend to create economic rejuvenation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4565]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4565</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[Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48967]]></link><description><![CDATA[Employ thy time well if thou meanest to get leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19027]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59880]]></link><description><![CDATA[Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66747]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ever since I was four years old, I loved making people smile, making them think, making them feel good, feel some kind of emotion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66747</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10700]]></link><description><![CDATA[Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53077]]></link><description><![CDATA[Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Unless the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh in vain. [Lat., Nisi Dominus frustra.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Unless the Lord keep the city the watchman waketh in vain. [Lat., Nisi Dominus frustra.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The issue of school choice is still alive but vouchers as a means is not a choice. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33246]]></link><description><![CDATA[The issue of school choice is still alive but vouchers as a means is not a choice.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
 ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62763]]></link><description><![CDATA[It takes a certain level of aspiration before one can take advantage of opportunities that are clearly offered.
]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62763</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55337]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man I am, cross'd with adversity. -The Two Gentleman of Verona. Act iv. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55337</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,—which is an excellent thing. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56776]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbour and to love your neighbour's wife.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4262]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4262</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet  Detegere vultus.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18477]]></link><description><![CDATA[The fearful face usually betrays great guilt. [Lat., Multa trepidus solet  Detegere vultus.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18477</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless  Are scattered at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13078]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless  Are scattered at the feet of Man, like flowers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13078</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better your room than your company. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better your room than your company.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23408]]></link><description><![CDATA[A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20946]]></link><description><![CDATA[The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20946</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36360]]></link><description><![CDATA[My first record came out in 1961 and then I had one come out in 1962 and then I had two that came out in 1964.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is time, as a matter of pride, as well as a matter of national security, for the United States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13883]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is time, as a matter of pride, as well as a matter of national security, for the United States of America to lead the world in the energy revolution, and not lag behind Japan or Germany]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54004]]></link><description><![CDATA[Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46876]]></link><description><![CDATA[The police cannot protect the citizen at this stage of our development, and they cannot even protect themselves in many cases. It is up to the private citizen to protect himself and his family, and this is not only acceptable, but mandatory.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth,  I've a wife that I love and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61376]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have mental joys and mental health, Mental friends and mental wealth,  I've a wife that I love and that loves me;   I've all but riches bodily.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61376</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8658]]></link><description><![CDATA[The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55089]]></link><description><![CDATA[Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44650]]></link><description><![CDATA[I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44650</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24286]]></link><description><![CDATA[The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few years ago at (The Raven) we hit the ball in places I didn't even know existed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36042]]></link><description><![CDATA[A few years ago at (The Raven) we hit the ball in places I didn't even know existed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's Christmas in August for big energy, and consumers get lumps of coal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29406]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's Christmas in August for big energy, and consumers get lumps of coal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29406</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21247]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the master so the valet. (Like master, like man.) [Fr., Fel maltre, tel valet.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19217]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the master so the valet. (Like master, like man.) [Fr., Fel maltre, tel valet.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19217</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure; Each day of business has its hour of leisure. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mix with your grave designs a little pleasure; Each day of business has its hour of leisure.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62720]]></link><description><![CDATA[It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13698]]></link><description><![CDATA[With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  We must try to be at one and the same time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6472]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Augustine, first Archbishop of Canterbury, 605  We must try to be at one and the same time for the Church and against the Church. They alone can serve her faithfully whose consciences are continually exercised as to whether they ought not, for Christ's sake, to leave her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64613]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down;  The voice I hear this ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44548]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down;  The voice I hear this passing night was heard   In ancient days by emperor and clown.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44548</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26130]]></link><description><![CDATA[Splendidly mendacious. [Lat., Splendide mendax.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1180]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45053]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man who grasps an opportunity as it is paraded before him, nine times out of ten makes a success, but the man who makes his own opportunities is, barring an accident, a sure-fire success]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45053</guid></item></channel></rss>