<?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[Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45892]]></link><description><![CDATA[Peace is more important than all justice; and was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our true nationality is mankind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43698]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our true nationality is mankind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's kind of fun to do the impossible. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21061]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's kind of fun to do the impossible.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65464]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The truest process of human kind and human life is to ultimatly conquer your fears and live a life worth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25013]]></link><description><![CDATA[The truest process of human kind and human life is to ultimatly conquer your fears and live a life worth dyeing for. Because in the end, before that final moment, is it not the moments of your life that flash before you?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Such a blush In the midst of brown was born,  Like red poppies grown with corn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4382]]></link><description><![CDATA[Such a blush In the midst of brown was born,  Like red poppies grown with corn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4382</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taste cannot be controlled by law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taste cannot be controlled by law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27088]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is the woman who chooses the man who will choose her.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1102]]></link><description><![CDATA[Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1102</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9543]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9543</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17703]]></link><description><![CDATA[You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66487]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66487</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13172]]></link><description><![CDATA[Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Edmund of the East Angles, Martyr, 870 Commemoration of Priscilla Lydia Sellon, a Restorer of the Religious Life in the Church of England, 1876   We take nothing to the grave with us, but a good or evil conscience... It is true, terrors of conscience cast us down; and yet without terrors of conscience we cannot be raised up again.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26533]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thine own purpose, thou hast sent The strife and the discouragement! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46159]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thine own purpose, thou hast sent The strife and the discouragement!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glass antique! 'twixt thee and Nell Draw we here a parallel!  She, like thee, was forced to bear  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9142]]></link><description><![CDATA[Glass antique! 'twixt thee and Nell Draw we here a parallel!  She, like thee, was forced to bear   All reflections, foul or fair.    Thou art deep and bright within,     Depths as bright belong'd to Gwynne;      Thou art very frail as well,       Frail as flesh is,--so was Nell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thou, o Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23460]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thou, o Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee. (2 Samuel 7:27)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give an inch, he'll take an ell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give an inch, he'll take an ell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65510]]></link><description><![CDATA[The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65510</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10859]]></link><description><![CDATA[Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10859</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5385]]></link><description><![CDATA[Caution is not cowardly. Carelessness is not courage]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It appears we will have a balanced budget with no [fare] increase. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41710]]></link><description><![CDATA[It appears we will have a balanced budget with no [fare] increase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53295]]></link><description><![CDATA[The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47106]]></link><description><![CDATA[...Although the political liberty of this country is greater than that of nearly every other civilized nation, its personal liberty is said to be less. In other words, men are thought to be more under the control of extra-legal authorities, and to defer more to those around them, in pursuing even their lawful and innocent occupations, than in almost every other country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47106</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember that a kite rises against - not with - the wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23891]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember that a kite rises against - not with - the wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12325]]></link><description><![CDATA[DIPLOMACY, n. Lying in state, or the patriotic art of lying for one's country.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12325</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As the younger generation, we've been raised to think that everything is OK and if you look down on anyone ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30027]]></link><description><![CDATA[As the younger generation, we've been raised to think that everything is OK and if you look down on anyone else, you judge anyone else, then you're a racist or you're a religious zealot, or you're not open-minded. So I think that people my age have been forced to be too accepting and too open-minded, whereas older people are sometimes narrow- minded.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30027</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be?  My God, no hymn ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of George Herbert, Priest, Poet, 1633 The shepherds sing; and shall I silent be?  My God, no hymn for Thee? My soul's a shepherd too: a flock it feeds  Of thoughts, and words, and deeds. The pasture is Thy Word, the streams, Thy Grace  Enriching all the place. Shepherd and flock shall sing, and all my powers  Out-sing the daylight hours.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is annoying to be honest to no purpose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64572]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20695]]></link><description><![CDATA[Inaction, contrary for its reputation as being a refuge, is neither safe nor comfortable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Stir up the hornets. [Fr., Irriter les freslons.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9970]]></link><description><![CDATA[Stir up the hornets. [Fr., Irriter les freslons.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4836]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4836</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these?  Surely the heart that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45448]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these?  Surely the heart that conceived it sought   Heart's ease.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60121]]></link><description><![CDATA[So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60121</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have to have a fairly recent analysis of the impacts before they can apply these categorical exclusions. If they're ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32777]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have to have a fairly recent analysis of the impacts before they can apply these categorical exclusions. If they're planning to improperly apply these exemptions ... in places where there are old land use plans that are out of date, then they are asking for legal trouble.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell Civil dissension is a viperous worm  That gnaws the bowels of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12562]]></link><description><![CDATA[Believe me, lords, my tender years can tell Civil dissension is a viperous worm  That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44207]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winners are those people who make a habit of doing the things losers are uncomfortable doing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61388]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64610]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64610</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it doth singe yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51353]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it doth singe yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51353</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61914]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man was made when Nature was but an apprentice, but woman when she was a skilful mistress of her art.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55892]]></link><description><![CDATA[A mad fellow met me on the way and told me I had unloaded all the gibbets and pressed the dead bodies. No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I 'll not march through Coventry with them, that 's flat: nay, and the villains march wide betwixt the legs, as if they had gyves on; for indeed I had the most of them out of prison. There 's but a shirt and a half in all my company; and the half-shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like an herald's coat without sleeves. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55892</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7542]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Teresa of Avila, Mystic, Teacher, 1582   God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone;  But those which soonest take their ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23433]]></link><description><![CDATA[How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone;  But those which soonest take their flight   Are the most exquisite and strong;    Like angel's visits short and bright,     Mortality's too weak to bear them long.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48568]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48568</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is good for the Internet, because it means more and more companies will have confidence that their content can ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28798]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is good for the Internet, because it means more and more companies will have confidence that their content can be securely streamed to end-users.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That's what everybody in the country wants to see. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34082]]></link><description><![CDATA[That's what everybody in the country wants to see.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34082</guid></item></channel></rss>