<?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[How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone,  If they the book God had ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54920]]></link><description><![CDATA[How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone,  If they the book God had seen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54920</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Penny wise, pound foolish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42953]]></link><description><![CDATA[Penny wise, pound foolish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42953</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47803]]></link><description><![CDATA[The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26855]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26855</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58182]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58182</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can always tell when a man is well informed. His views are pretty much like your own. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1935]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can always tell when a man is well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3370]]></link><description><![CDATA[What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3370</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10158]]></link><description><![CDATA[My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53896]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53896</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hitler invaded in March 1938 and everything after that went downhill. My husband was in the concentration camp and everything ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41572]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hitler invaded in March 1938 and everything after that went downhill. My husband was in the concentration camp and everything was taken - but material values at the time didn't matter one bit. It was only after that it did matter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41572</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Things have been great this season. We've had a lot of support and we hope to see more people here ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38250]]></link><description><![CDATA[Things have been great this season. We've had a lot of support and we hope to see more people here next year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a good initiative to resolve the situation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35730]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a good initiative to resolve the situation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18824]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10001]]></link><description><![CDATA[Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flowery oratory he [Walpole] despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4900]]></link><description><![CDATA[Flowery oratory he [Walpole] despised. He ascribed to the interested views of themselves or their relatives the declarations of pretended patriots, of whom he said, "All those men have their price."]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10878]]></link><description><![CDATA[The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52825]]></link><description><![CDATA[I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51364]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51364</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4999]]></link><description><![CDATA[There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry go-round policy. They got up on their high horse, whooped and hollered, rode around in circles, and ended right back where they'd started.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all nature's gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66269]]></link><description><![CDATA[A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/947]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9507]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9507</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. -The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56086]]></link><description><![CDATA[Merrily, merrily shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough. -The Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions ... These are ingredients for catastrophe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36805]]></link><description><![CDATA[We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions ... These are ingredients for catastrophe.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61351]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Since the life of Christ is every way most bitter to nature and the Self and the Me (for in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6781]]></link><description><![CDATA[Since the life of Christ is every way most bitter to nature and the Self and the Me (for in the true life of Christ, the Self and the Me and nature must be forsaken and lost and die altogether), therefore in each of us, nature hath a deep horror of it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And wisest he in this whole wide land Of hoarding till bent and gray;  For all you can hold ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17450]]></link><description><![CDATA[And wisest he in this whole wide land Of hoarding till bent and gray;  For all you can hold in your cold, dead hand   Is what you have given away.    . . . .     He gave with a zest and he gave his best;      Give him the best to come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A good horse should be seldom spurred ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19831]]></link><description><![CDATA[A good horse should be seldom spurred]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The finest amusements are the most pointless ones. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24618]]></link><description><![CDATA[The finest amusements are the most pointless ones.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19233]]></link><description><![CDATA[Heroes as great have died, and yet shall fall.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that sowes trusts in God. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49396]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that sowes trusts in God.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The November meeting is a very crucial one. It is a turning point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35724]]></link><description><![CDATA[The November meeting is a very crucial one. It is a turning point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11019]]></link><description><![CDATA[Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11019</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thou living ray of intellectual fire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22881]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thou living ray of intellectual fire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22881</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50393]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whither, O god of wine, art thou hurrying me, whilst under thy all-powerful influence?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45474]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45474</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18247]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53546]]></link><description><![CDATA[While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free,  The shrine of each ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2389]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, Columbia, the gem of the ocean, The home of the brave and the free,  The shrine of each patriot's devotion,   A world offers homage to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2389</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12315]]></link><description><![CDATA[A real diplomat is one who can cut his neighbor's throat without having his neighbor notice it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Well, he's a wonderful son-in-law. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38609]]></link><description><![CDATA[Well, he's a wonderful son-in-law.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38609</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13096]]></link><description><![CDATA[The bird of Jove, stoop'd from his aery tour, Two birds of gayest plume before him drove.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13096</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With corporate balance sheets and cash flow strong, we look for investment spending to remain strong, pushing up growth in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39111]]></link><description><![CDATA[With corporate balance sheets and cash flow strong, we look for investment spending to remain strong, pushing up growth in the capital stock and adding to labor productivity growth in 2006.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39111</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I hit some bad shots but didn't let it get to me. The course is there for the taking, you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29588]]></link><description><![CDATA[I hit some bad shots but didn't let it get to me. The course is there for the taking, you can make some birdies out there. I started with a 62 in my last European win and the club manager who was at the Mines Resort in Malaysia is now running this club here. It could be a good sign.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/29588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66843]]></link><description><![CDATA[Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66843</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64289]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm like an old warrior who can galvanize himself when he's threatened, but I'm pretty idle when I've got no ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38786]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm like an old warrior who can galvanize himself when he's threatened, but I'm pretty idle when I've got no threats.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38786</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60171]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the Universe to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60171</guid></item></channel></rss>