<?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[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921  I would not favour a fiction to keep a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8134]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921  I would not favour a fiction to keep a whole world out of hell. The hell that a lie would keep any man out of is doubtless the very best place for him to go to. It is truth... that saves the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20243]]></link><description><![CDATA[An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. •Michael Korda   We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. •G. K. Chesterton  Often a noble face hides filthy ways. •Euripides  The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47031]]></link><description><![CDATA[The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47031</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've negotiated long and hard with both players. We'll see what develops but I'm not sure we have anything to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35899]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've negotiated long and hard with both players. We'll see what develops but I'm not sure we have anything to talk about at this point.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The China Study' will raise the question, whether Dr. Campbell is right or not, why don't more people know about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30275]]></link><description><![CDATA[The China Study' will raise the question, whether Dr. Campbell is right or not, why don't more people know about this important health information?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30275</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that deales in the world needes foure seeves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49332]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Television is a corporate vulgarity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58832]]></link><description><![CDATA[Television is a corporate vulgarity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58832</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20289]]></link><description><![CDATA[This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20289</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. [Lat., In omnibus negotiis prius quam aggrediare, adhibenda est ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3949]]></link><description><![CDATA[In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. [Lat., In omnibus negotiis prius quam aggrediare, adhibenda est praeparatio diligens.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55039]]></link><description><![CDATA[Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, though the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12282]]></link><description><![CDATA[No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20519]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [Ger., Es ist nichts furchterlicher als Einbildungskraft ohne Geschmack.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20519</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13114]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13114</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The effect of the release on gasoline prices is limited. Refineries are producing at full capacity and more crude will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28492]]></link><description><![CDATA[The effect of the release on gasoline prices is limited. Refineries are producing at full capacity and more crude will not lead to more gasoline.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even in a country like the USA where fitness has become an obsession, most people exercising do not seem to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14475]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even in a country like the USA where fitness has become an obsession, most people exercising do not seem to think it illogical to drive automobiles to gyms while doing their best to avoid walking]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It took hundreds of years and thousands of lives, but the Universe finally taught me it's one and only lesson. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53240]]></link><description><![CDATA[It took hundreds of years and thousands of lives, but the Universe finally taught me it's one and only lesson. Existence is worthless.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/28830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6869]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50723]]></link><description><![CDATA[Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Health consists with Temperance alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18926]]></link><description><![CDATA[Health consists with Temperance alone.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18926</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's a bit of a trade-off. It's exciting to see the new ruins and get that information, but at the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37201]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's a bit of a trade-off. It's exciting to see the new ruins and get that information, but at the same time, fire can destroy these sites.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/37201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11149]]></link><description><![CDATA[If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men of different tastes have different pursuits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48851]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men of different tastes have different pursuits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48851</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59008]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/59008</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47255]]></link><description><![CDATA[Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/47255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All summer she scattered the daisy leaves; They only mocked her as they fell.  She said: "The daisy but ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10992]]></link><description><![CDATA[All summer she scattered the daisy leaves; They only mocked her as they fell.  She said: "The daisy but deceives;   'He loves me not,' 'he loves me will,'    One story no two daisies tell."     Ah foolish heart, which waits and grieves      Under the daisy's mocking spell.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Mom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That was the most money we had ever seen in this house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40662]]></link><description><![CDATA[That was the most money we had ever seen in this house.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  It is for Christ's sake that we believe in the Scriptures, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8283]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Mary Magdalen, Apostle to the Apostles  It is for Christ's sake that we believe in the Scriptures, but it is not for the Scriptures' sake that we believe in Christ.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They condemn that which they cannot comprehend. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48883]]></link><description><![CDATA[They condemn that which they cannot comprehend.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57035]]></link><description><![CDATA[To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57035</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And a breastplate made of daisies, Closely fitting, leaf on leaf,  Periwinkles interlaced   Drawn for belt about ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10980]]></link><description><![CDATA[And a breastplate made of daisies, Closely fitting, leaf on leaf,  Periwinkles interlaced   Drawn for belt about the waist;    While the brown bees, humming praises,     Shot their arrows round the chief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As our everyday lives become more hectic, customers are increasingly looking for hassle-free financial products that save both time and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33015]]></link><description><![CDATA[As our everyday lives become more hectic, customers are increasingly looking for hassle-free financial products that save both time and money. Living for Less is a unique mortgage package that does exactly that.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33015</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20177]]></link><description><![CDATA[When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20177</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18531]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. [Lat., Frangas enim, citius quam corrigas quae in pravum induerunt.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No tye can oblige the perfidious. [No tie can oblige the perfidious.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49656]]></link><description><![CDATA[No tye can oblige the perfidious. [No tie can oblige the perfidious.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44760]]></link><description><![CDATA[Like beauteous flowers which vainly waste their scent Of odours in unhaunted deserts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10345]]></link><description><![CDATA[Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10345</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[For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57777]]></link><description><![CDATA[For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;  The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape, give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/57777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wrapped the world around my fingers, taking control through the electron and the baud, burned your bridges and the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30139]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wrapped the world around my fingers, taking control through the electron and the baud, burned your bridges and the protocols. So why you turning back? I'm still the same talent and watching as well.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let me take you a button-hole lower. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55503]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let me take you a button-hole lower. -Love's Labour 's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55503</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12421]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/12421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Great art picks up where nature ends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3315]]></link><description><![CDATA[Great art picks up where nature ends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3315</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24400]]></link><description><![CDATA[Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where lies the land, to which the ship would go?Far, far ahead is all, her seamen know.And where the land ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54945]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where lies the land, to which the ship would go?Far, far ahead is all, her seamen know.And where the land she travels from?Away, far far behind, is all that they can say.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54945</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25351]]></link><description><![CDATA[Accuse not nature, she hath done her part;Do thou but thine, and be not diffidentOf wisdom, she deserts thee not, if thouDismiss not her, when most thou needest her nigh,By attributing overmuch to thingsLess excellent, as thou thyself perceivest. - Paradise Lost.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25351</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9685]]></link><description><![CDATA[The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9685</guid></item></channel></rss>