<?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[An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65784]]></link><description><![CDATA[An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It means everything. Having grown up in Las Vegas, it gives you a sense of accomplishment and appreciation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36118]]></link><description><![CDATA[It means everything. Having grown up in Las Vegas, it gives you a sense of accomplishment and appreciation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psychological Reflections. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46379]]></link><description><![CDATA[We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. - Psychological Reflections.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53253]]></link><description><![CDATA[We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24378]]></link><description><![CDATA[Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24378</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8783]]></link><description><![CDATA[He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble. [Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13108]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, talent does what it can. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58597]]></link><description><![CDATA[Genius does what it must, talent does what it can.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36991]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/36991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51578]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tongue prone to slander is the proof of a depraved mind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Justice and Judgment are thy throne  Yet wondrous is thy grace; While truth and mercy joined in one,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6604]]></link><description><![CDATA[Justice and Judgment are thy throne  Yet wondrous is thy grace; While truth and mercy joined in one,  Invite us near thy face.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  We, and all things, exist in God's lnfinitude ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6443]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203  We, and all things, exist in God's lnfinitude now; our individuality begins with it; our personality grows strong because of it; and we know, if we know anything, that while the more we approach the good the more we please God, at the same time the more we approach the good the more nobly distinctive, the more beautifully individual do our characters become.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46437]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt anyone will ever see -- anywhere -- a memorial to a pessimist.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/46437</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No book was ever written down by any but itself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53878]]></link><description><![CDATA[No book was ever written down by any but itself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53878</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5005]]></link><description><![CDATA[Good business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately own the vision, and relentlessly drive it to completion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5005</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11508]]></link><description><![CDATA[Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11508</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13965]]></link><description><![CDATA[None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60301]]></link><description><![CDATA[Without the utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked;...utopia is the principle of all progress, adn the essay into a better world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60301</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They're pretty skinny and not very attractive. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32518]]></link><description><![CDATA[They're pretty skinny and not very attractive.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/32518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're hoping for the momentum (from the win), but not (an emotional) high, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30597]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're hoping for the momentum (from the win), but not (an emotional) high,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/30597</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65098]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It's a death trap.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15251]]></link><description><![CDATA[Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/15251</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still you keep o' the windy side of the law. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55767]]></link><description><![CDATA[Still you keep o' the windy side of the law. -Twelfth Night. Act iii. Sc. 4.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whether it would be a feature film or not I didn't know. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42429]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whether it would be a feature film or not I didn't know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now within ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9402]]></link><description><![CDATA[What is more difficult, to think of an encampment on the moon or of Harlem rebuilt? Both are now within the reach of our resources. Both now depend upon human decision and human will.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/9402</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42750]]></link><description><![CDATA[I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That is gold which is worth gold. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17773]]></link><description><![CDATA[That is gold which is worth gold.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17773</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45153]]></link><description><![CDATA[Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18042]]></link><description><![CDATA[Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60984]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[After the story broke, there was stupid conduct. But that doesn't make what happened before a crime. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40648]]></link><description><![CDATA[After the story broke, there was stupid conduct. But that doesn't make what happened before a crime.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Obliged by hunger and request of friends. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Obliged by hunger and request of friends.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24702]]></link><description><![CDATA[The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal -- well-meaning but without understanding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24702</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4904]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4904</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are few actions on Earth more profane than a governmental dream holding hostage the well-being of humanity. When such ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38891]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are few actions on Earth more profane than a governmental dream holding hostage the well-being of humanity. When such an abrogation occurs, the moral obligation between the government and the people dissolves, and ethics is reduced to insignificance.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Literature is the question minus the answer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25270]]></link><description><![CDATA[Literature is the question minus the answer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26515]]></link><description><![CDATA[The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26515</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10732]]></link><description><![CDATA[Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145]]></link><description><![CDATA[The term up has no meaning apart from the word down. The term fast has no meaning apart from the term slow. In addition such terms have no meaning even when used together, except when confined to a very particular situation... most of our language about the organization and objective's of government is made up of such polar terms. Justice and injustice are typical. A reformer who wants to abolish injustice and create a world in which nothing but justice prevails is like a man who wants to make everything up. Such a man might feel that if he took the lowest in the world and carried it up to the highest point and kept on doing this, everything would eventually become up. This would certainly move a great many objects and create an enormous amount of activity. It might or might not be useful, according to the standards which we apply. However it would never result in the abolishment of down.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19110]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/19110</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26811]]></link><description><![CDATA[The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bearing His cross, while Christ passed forth forlorn, His God-like forehead by the mock crown torn,  A little bird ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54339]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bearing His cross, while Christ passed forth forlorn, His God-like forehead by the mock crown torn,  A little bird took from that crown one thorn.   To soothe the dear Redeemer's throbbing head,    That bird did what she could; His blood, 'tis said,     Down dropping, dyed her tender bosom red.      Since then no wanton boy disturbs her nest;       Weasel nor wild cat will her young molest;        All sacred deem the bird of ruddy breast.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can afford it, we like it, and unlike the car that you spend $35,000 on today, it appreciates and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35898]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can afford it, we like it, and unlike the car that you spend $35,000 on today, it appreciates and is an excellent investment.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35898</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60347]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17883]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it; it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority seems to believe that failing to act against terrorism, and inducing turmoil, chaos and instability, will cause ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40210]]></link><description><![CDATA[The Palestinian Authority seems to believe that failing to act against terrorism, and inducing turmoil, chaos and instability, will cause the government and people of Israel to buckle. They will not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/40210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bear with evil, and expect good. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50969]]></link><description><![CDATA[Bear with evil, and expect good.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50969</guid></item></channel></rss>