<?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[If the destructive dice-box has pleasures for the father, the son will be a gambler. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50454]]></link><description><![CDATA[If the destructive dice-box has pleasures for the father, the son will be a gambler.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have taken all knowledge to be my province. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52384]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have taken all knowledge to be my province.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52384</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The glacier was God's great plough . . . set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11693]]></link><description><![CDATA[I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to help illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when you kill someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That woman is a blessing from God. She was always looking toward the future. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41978]]></link><description><![CDATA[That woman is a blessing from God. She was always looking toward the future.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17423]]></link><description><![CDATA[A woman's beauty is not a gift to man - only a bribe]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens; 'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look  Upon that poor and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51231]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens; 'Tis just the fashion. Wherefore do you look  Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51231</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 intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way! ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22888]]></link><description><![CDATA[The intellectual power, through words and things, Went sounding on, a dim and perilous way!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1904]]></link><description><![CDATA[How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With this rescue in West Virginia , I feel even more helpless because I'm here, and not doing much other ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30208]]></link><description><![CDATA[With this rescue in West Virginia , I feel even more helpless because I'm here, and not doing much other than praying.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56771]]></link><description><![CDATA[The wise man sometimes flees from society from fear of being bored.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47063]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Information is the seed for an idea, and only grows when it's watered. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Information is the seed for an idea, and only grows when it's watered.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36565]]></link><description><![CDATA[The emergency we face in the Horn today is the result of successive seasons of failed rains. Consequently, pastoralists living in these arid, remote lands have very few survival strategies left and require our assistance to make it through until the next rains.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thirty days hath November, April, June, and September,  February hath xxviii alone,   And all the rest have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43028]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thirty days hath November, April, June, and September,  February hath xxviii alone,   And all the rest have xxxi.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24313]]></link><description><![CDATA[If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is an essential part of the democratic process.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24313</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23644]]></link><description><![CDATA[So justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23644</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47734]]></link><description><![CDATA[If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most advertisements are covertly pornographic.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63976]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64908]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is a beautiful trait in the lover's character, that they think no evil of the object loved.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People are invested in their treatment. They want to see it succeed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28675]]></link><description><![CDATA[People are invested in their treatment. They want to see it succeed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61805]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wit consists in seeing the resemblance between things which differ, and the difference between things which are alike]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61805</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43869]]></link><description><![CDATA[As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14578]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink, this many and many a year.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44990]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47617]]></link><description><![CDATA[The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[So far this year, 15 have already resigned, and it's only March. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38595]]></link><description><![CDATA[So far this year, 15 have already resigned, and it's only March.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27869]]></link><description><![CDATA[An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/27869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The president's most solemn responsibility is to protect the American people. He is committed to doing everything in his lawful ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33036]]></link><description><![CDATA[The president's most solemn responsibility is to protect the American people. He is committed to doing everything in his lawful power to prevent attack.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33036</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19756]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19756</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31362]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, The women pardoned all, except her face. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14852]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, The women pardoned all, except her face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48038]]></link><description><![CDATA[Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O, good my lord, no Latin! I am not such a truant since my coming  As not to know ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25135]]></link><description><![CDATA[O, good my lord, no Latin! I am not such a truant since my coming  As not to know the language I have lived in.   A strnage tongue makes my cause more strnage, suspicious.    Pray speak in English.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25135</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found;  And 'tis joy that moves the pinion  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23434]]></link><description><![CDATA[Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found;  And 'tis joy that moves the pinion   When the wheel of time goes round.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62298]]></link><description><![CDATA[The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62298</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is a big rival. And it doesn't make a difference who's playing well and who's the better team because ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30914]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is a big rival. And it doesn't make a difference who's playing well and who's the better team because anybody can win. We're the better team and we're probably the more skilled team, but they play us tough. They test us and they always challenge us.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30914</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Third act of the eternal play! In poster-like emblazonries  "Autumn once more begins today"--   'Tis written all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3557]]></link><description><![CDATA[Third act of the eternal play! In poster-like emblazonries  "Autumn once more begins today"--   'Tis written all across the trees    In yellow like Chinese.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3557</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One can advise comfortably from a safe port. [Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/789]]></link><description><![CDATA[One can advise comfortably from a safe port. [Ger., Vom sichern Port lasst sich's gemachlich rathen.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obscenity is in the crotch of the beholder. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43113]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obscenity is in the crotch of the beholder.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43113</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   Almighty God, have mercy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6809]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Thomas More, Scholar & Martyr, & John Fisher, Bishop & Martyr, 1535   Almighty God, have mercy on N and N and on all that bear me ill will, and would me harm, and on their faults and mine together; and by such easy, tender, merciful means as Thine infinite wisdom best can divine, vouchsafe to amend and redress; and make us saved souls together in heaven where we may ever live and love together with Thee and Thy blessed saints, O glorious Trinity, for the bitter passion of our sweet saviour Christ, amen.   ... ascribed to Sir Thomas More  July 7, 2002   O God, the strength of all those who put their trust in thee; mercifully accept our prayers; and because, through the weakness of our mortal nature, we can do no good thing without thee, grant us the help of thy grace, that in keeping thy commandments we may please thee, both in will and deed; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.   ... Collect for the first Sunday after Trinity, The Book of Common Prayer [1928]  July 8, 2002   Happily for us, the fundamental Christian message concerns not what we ought to do, but what God has done and what God is willing to do. In fellowship with Him and with others who are likewise trying to be like Him, we can be lifted up above our native possibilities.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6809</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5430]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5430</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23318]]></link><description><![CDATA[Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38536]]></link><description><![CDATA[American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38536</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61774]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15602]]></link><description><![CDATA[A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48949]]></link><description><![CDATA[Old age creeps on us ere we think it nigh.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Move him into the sun —Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Move him into the sun —Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even in France,Until this morning and this snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56485]]></link><description><![CDATA[Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56485</guid></item></channel></rss>