<?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[Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50661]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who aspires must down as low As high he soar'd.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50661</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45223]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45223</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56683]]></link><description><![CDATA[A smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56683</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns  Of judgment and of mercy, should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48077]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that negotiates between God and man, As God's ambassador, the grand concerns  Of judgment and of mercy, should beware   Of lightness in his speech.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4996]]></link><description><![CDATA[Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48088]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even ministers of good things are like torches, a light to others, waste and destruction to themselves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48088</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14525]]></link><description><![CDATA[Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14525</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From an R&D perspective, they've actually got the first or second largest cancer pipeline in the world. So, they're moving ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35455]]></link><description><![CDATA[From an R&D perspective, they've actually got the first or second largest cancer pipeline in the world. So, they're moving in the right direction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The women also ... are given a quiz asking them what's their primary form of contraception and their second form ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37751]]></link><description><![CDATA[The women also ... are given a quiz asking them what's their primary form of contraception and their second form of contraception, and it has to match up to what the practitioner said.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37751</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If yet not lost to all the sense of shame. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56129]]></link><description><![CDATA[If yet not lost to all the sense of shame.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Families are great murderers of the creative impulse, particularly husbands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12554]]></link><description><![CDATA[Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4589]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62061]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62061</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57666]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let there be spaces in your togetherness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48278]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let there be spaces in your togetherness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3657]]></link><description><![CDATA[Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3657</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Boston Globe is just struggling mightily. It's a function of the Boston economy; it's a function of the mergers ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34048]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe is just struggling mightily. It's a function of the Boston economy; it's a function of the mergers of advertisers like Bank of America and Fleet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34048</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baby bye Here's a fly,  Let us watch him, you and I,   How he crawls   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16228]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baby bye Here's a fly,  Let us watch him, you and I,   How he crawls    Up the walls     Yet he never falls.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16228</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7041]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Philanthropist, Reformer of the Church, 1093 Commemoration of Edmund Rich of Abingdon, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1240  We get our moral bearings by looking at God. We must begin with God. We are right when, and only when, we stand in a right position relative to God, and we are wrong so far and so long as we stand in any other position.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37518]]></link><description><![CDATA[Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ambition never comes to an end. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2357]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ambition never comes to an end.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46201]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!  Thou art ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43400]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!  Thou art the ruins of the noblest man   That ever lived in the tide of times.    Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA["He was a very good hater." ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18854]]></link><description><![CDATA["He was a very good hater."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18854</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You don't get many bites, but you can get some big bass, especially when the pattern first develops. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40401]]></link><description><![CDATA[You don't get many bites, but you can get some big bass, especially when the pattern first develops.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a significant improvement in survival for women with this disease, which is most often diagnosed at an advanced ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33369]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a significant improvement in survival for women with this disease, which is most often diagnosed at an advanced stage.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33369</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1082]]></link><description><![CDATA[Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1082</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19190]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19190</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44599]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I thought they might enjoy that. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42010]]></link><description><![CDATA[I thought they might enjoy that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With terrestrial exotics, we said, 'Oops,' years later, and now we're spending a lot of money fighting them, ... In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28175]]></link><description><![CDATA[With terrestrial exotics, we said, 'Oops,' years later, and now we're spending a lot of money fighting them, ... In Florida, we're not there yet with invasive fish. Will they have negative impacts? We don't know yet, but it makes sense to find out. Once you're invaded, you can't get them out, but with understanding, we might be able to control them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28175</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24670]]></link><description><![CDATA[In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24670</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65076]]></link><description><![CDATA[Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62471]]></link><description><![CDATA[YANKEE, n. In Europe, an American. In the Northern States of our Union, a New Englander. In the Southern States the word is unknown. (See DAMYANK.)]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25162]]></link><description><![CDATA[Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow,  In books and love the mind one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60426]]></link><description><![CDATA[Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow,  In books and love the mind one end pursues,   And only change the expiring flames renews.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/16604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24841]]></link><description><![CDATA[As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample wealth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26205]]></link><description><![CDATA[That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54129]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transcendental moonshine. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43059]]></link><description><![CDATA[Transcendental moonshine.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21254]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21254</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man may blaspheme against the Son of Man and be forgiven; but the sin against the Spirit of Truth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8371]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man may blaspheme against the Son of Man and be forgiven; but the sin against the Spirit of Truth -- what can God Himself do with or for the man who will not acknowledge the truth he knows, or follow the light he sees?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only one who can beat me is me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45022]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only one who can beat me is me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45022</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1685]]></link><description><![CDATA[I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynics are made, not born. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cynics are made, not born.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8668]]></link><description><![CDATA[To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church. [Fr., Pour soutenir tes droits, que le ciel autorise,  Abime tout plutot; c'est l'esprit de l'Eglise.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8668</guid></item></channel></rss>